How to fix a Galaxy s3 that keeps rebooting into recovery mode?
Hope this help you Step 1: Power down the device. Pulling the battery will work as well, especially if you are caught in a boot loop. Step 2: Allow the device to completely shut down. Waiting until your screen is off, or just giving it a full minute or two should suffice. Step 3a: For the Galaxy S2 and Tab 2, you will need to hold Volume Up and Power at the same time until you see the Samsung logo appear. Then release. 3b: For the Galaxy S3, you will need to hold the volume up, home, and power button at the same time until you see the Samsung logo, and then release. Step 4: For all variants mentioned, you should now be looking at a menu list with a blue highlighted bar. Using the volume rockers will navigate through the menus, and generally power is your accept button. The S2 might have a little twist. Upon getting into recovery, you can push up, down, up to enable the back button. This also allows to use the power button as the accept button. See figure 1. Important note: When navigating around in recovery and you select something, you may be redirected to a page with about a dozen answers. Almost all will be no with yes buried in the middle. This is to prevent accidental accepting of an option. 4b: To actually have you use this guide, you can clear your phone's cache. See figure 2. There are many cache clearing programs on Play, and while they may clear the cache as well as rebooting into recovery, this is merely an alternate method. Click power to accept. Step 5: When completed, you can navigate back, or usually after completing any action in Recovery, Reboot Now will be highlighted at the root menu. See figure 3. This is your gate back to running Android through the User Interface. Click power to accept. Congratulations! You have successfully entered, navigated, executed a command and rebooted all in Recovery. This is also a method to flash a ROM through a .zip file on an SD card, and a complete Factory Reset can be accomplished in this manner as well.
I've dropped my tablet into the water. It keeps restarting. What is the chance of saving it?
I can tell you a little story:A friend of mine accidentally dropped his smartphone in a pool, it was completely submerged, after very quickly picking it up....the most immediate advise we got from both the web and those so called "experts" was:a) DO NOT turn on the device (which I think you have done already, sadly). If you turn it on, electricity starts to flow possibly short-circuiting stuff and damaging the device. This is because most water can conduct electricity to certain level, because it has salts and other stuff diluted (unless it is distilled water).b) If possible take out the battery, to, again, protect it from turning on. Dry everything with a towel as best as you can.c) Drop the device and battery into a bowl (or a bowl for each) or recipient full or RICE, yes, RICE grains...so, the device kind of stays in the middle completely surrounded by RICE...like floating in RICE ..I think you get the idea.d) Leave it there for a couple of days in a dry environment and getting as much sunlight (for the heat) as possible.Explanation: RICE will absorb humidity, sun heat will help with water evaporation and whatever humidity is left there will be absorbed by the RICE grains.After a few days, take it out of the rice bowl, put in the battery and turn it on.There is a high possibility that, if it was not damaged initially with the immersion in water, and now, full dry. It will work fine.Sadly, if something was damaged by a short-circuit when turning it on initially, after it became wet or while it was wet (at least some parts...), then your device is damaged for good.In my friend's case, his phone turned on perfectly after a few days of drying in RICE grains and worked perfectly. But, that was just his case.If you decide on trying this, AT YOUR OWN RISK, let us know how it works.Good luck.
Why does my Samsung Galaxy phone say safe mode in the bottom left corner of my screen?
The reason behind getting into Android Safe Mode might fluctuate in every device. It might occur because of any third party application which is obstructing the normal functioning of the device. Or it might be some malicious link or application which has injected the software. Restart your phone and it will be out of safe mode.In case if it doesn't work then Long press the Switch off button and tap ‘Power off’.Once it turns off, you need to turn it on again by pressing the power button and volume buttons together.Read more: How to turn off/on safe mode in samsung and other phones?
Samsung Galaxy S4 - Wifi Network disabled Internet slow?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 through Verizon. Over the weekend, I updated my phone with the new Android Jellybean software. Prior to this updated, I have always been able to connect to my office’s wifi with no issues. However after the updated, the phone will connect to the office wifi for a second or two, than return the following message, “Network Disabled because the Internet connection is slow” and cannot connect. I called my IT department, they said the office’s internet has not changed and I sit about 50 feet from the wifi router. Now I do get wifi connection at home and other places, and considering that the only change since last Friday was from the software updated, it has to be a phone issue. I have done the following to get the wifi to connect: Have “removed” the network and reconnect to wifi (no luck) Done a complete shut down and reboot of the phone (no luck) Taken the phone into Samsung (in Best Buy) and had them run a check to make sure the software is installed correctly (and it is) Gone to Verizon store and had them look at it (they found no issues) What else can I do? I enjoy using apps the need a connection (ie Pandora, Facebook), but just do not want to waste my data plan while at the office.
Samsung Droid freezing while playing Candy Crush?
Yes. I have a Huawei ascend y. I have this problem because my phone SUCKS. Lol, to put it better..... I have a slow processor, only 800mhz, single core. This makes video and gaming playback struggle. Some phones today are dual core, or quad core, or even octo core. That means, more cores = more multitasking your phone can handle and still keep up (i.e. talking on your phone while browsing online and loading a YouTube video in a separate tab. That's multitasking). Single core isn't necessarily bad, but mine is low, so it struggles a lot. I'm upgrading to a new Android with 1ghz processor, which is faster. My current Android also has about 129 RAM. Very small. That's basically the phone's power. Small RAM means it can't play games that use a lot of RAM. If I try, the phone will freeze, and "fix" the problem itself by shutting off apps that are low priority that are running and using RAM. If the phone has to shut certain things down for the game to run, this will result in freezes, because those apps it stops might be trying to restart and the cycle doesn't stop n and the game just keeps freezing because the phone is fighting to make enough RAM. If it can't make enough space for the game to run using the RAM, the game will crash. It's generally not the game's fault, it's the phone protecting itself from being over powered (unless the game is buggy for that certain device, which you may see from other people reviewing on google play). Some people root their devices to "overclock" the RAM. It makes the phone work harder for those games, but the device will often overheat and the battery will drain extremely fast. I know my answer was long but maybe it helps you know why your phone might be freezing. :P