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Tips and Tricks: How to Boot up in Safe Mode.

by aymz on Aug 26th, 2009 at 11:00 am EST
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Have you ever found yourself in a position of having downloaded a corrupt application and killed your BlackBerry. Battery pull resets just throw it in the endless loop of boot cycle… and to top it all off you can’t get to a PC to reload or update your firmware ?

Try  booting your BlackBerry in safe mode. (Works with most devices running OS 4.6 and above). The basic idea behind it is that much like Safe Mode on a PC, booting your device this way allows you to uninstall any “bad” applications by loading the bare essentials upon startup.You simply perform a battery pull and then hold the Back key until the Safe Mode dialog appears.

(Courtesy: Tfrankson via tips@berryreview.com ). Thank you for the tips and please, keep em coming…

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5 Comments to “Tips and Tricks: How to Boot up in Safe Mode.”

  1. Posted by: automan69
    August 26, 2009 at 11:33 am EST

    I have tried this on my tour and can’t get it to work. I read that when you put your battery back in wait for the red led to go off then hold your back key. Well I held it for the whole restart and nothing happen. If any Tour owners have tried it. Please let me know how you got it to work. Thanks.

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  2. Posted by: mckinneycm
    August 26, 2009 at 11:42 am EST

    Doesn’t work on the Bold with 4.6.0.297. Tried with a Battery Pull, QuickPull, and Alt+Shift+Del. Boots up normally, no safe mode.

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  3. Posted by: Tashanna
    August 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm EST

    It works perfect on my 8900 Curve. I had to actaully use it twice to del a corrupted theme and app. But I never pulled out the battery. Just restart phone – and I just held down the BACK button until it boots up and I will see it says safe mode. I’m also running 4.6.1.250 OS

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  4. Posted by: mckinneycm
    August 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm EST

    I hold down the back button and it boots all the way up and if I continue holding it, I just get a black screen. As soon as I let go, I get the home screen and no safe mode.

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  5. Posted by: rajones19
    August 26, 2009 at 10:40 pm EST

    Not working on the Tour here, either.

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