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iPhone Safe Mode: Who knew?

What happens when you set your jailbroken iPhone to "fast respring" (that is, turn on one of the SpringBoard relaunching options) via BossTool, and SpringBoard crashes? Safe mode, apparently. Who knew that Safe Mode even existed on the iPhone? I certainly didn't until TUAW reader Max S. sent in the pictures below.

Safe Mode apparently disables certain system extensions. You can get out of safe mode by rebooting. So let's see, a blue screen of doom and safe mode. Hmmm. I thought this phone was manufactured by Apple. Where's Seinfeld?

Anyway, this isn't the first time the topic of iPhone's Safe Mode has come up. I googled up this Austrian page and a few other hits -- most of which seemed to appear in September of 2008, after the recent firmware upgrade.

Know anything about Safe Mode and the iPhone? Drop a comment and tell us more.

Update: Readers do know more! They point out that this is a Winterboard feature and not part of Apple's firmware.



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ivan

Today my iPhone wake up whit this blue screen. I un check transparend odck from winterboard & blue screen dissappear... SInce I in 2.1 my iPhone stablity is veri very improve, king regards

October 16 2008 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brady Williams

I just got safe mode don't want to reboot until I can take pictures

October 07 2008 at 5:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
andrew

I just got it and I dont have winterboard installed, happened after a cracked tetris crash and a restart

September 24 2008 at 2:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zurie

yep... ditto agree on the people who own blogs but have absolutely NO idea what they are talking about... followed by the countless people who have a jailbroken phone and have no idea how to operate it. Its like having a car with a hood latch. noone can open it, so everyone is happy. they crash, they just restore and get their 20 appstore apps back. but the second someone comes out with a latch to open the hood, a bunch of shortbus allstars go in and hose the system, and or - don't know anything about how to fix the system they are working on.

like the poster said above in http://blog.zydev.info/2008/08/30/fix-for-the-never-ending-apple-logo-during-iphone-boot-problem/

he is exactly right! I have been doing this for months now, way before august 30th, right around when 2.0.2 came out. I am very familiar with watchdog and the 120 second timeout that it gets. if your phone is jailbroken, there is absolutely NOOOO reason you will EVER have to restore it! now... you can always fix it... ALWAYS.. if you know how to read logs, know how to use SSH, know how to operate the innar working of OSX. I beta test intelliscreen all day long, and have never had to restore... ignorance is bliss. enjoy your jail-"broken" iphones and i'll enjoy mine. for anyone who has a spinning boot issue definetally read that thread and enlighten yourself. if you ever freeze up your phone. download "iphone tunnel suite" and learn to SSH in.. if you can't fix it, at least you can pull your SMS database, your contact list, any doc or movies, or anything you find precious to your jailbroken phones... school is now in session :D

September 23 2008 at 3:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
vortex215

I've started to get into the safe mode everytime i install an application from appstore!
No winterboard is installed. Only Cydia and Installer.

September 22 2008 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

Boys, I don't have winterboard installed but I had this Safe Mode once as well. Scared in the first place but nothing bad happened after a reboot. Phew.

September 21 2008 at 4:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kinto

not implying that you do, but people talk A LOT of shit about steve... and i don't know him or work for apple...

but the non 'RDF' is he's got our backs and always has to the best of his ability since before apple ][

seriously... you're concerned about safe mode on a jailbroken phone?

September 20 2008 at 2:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Feiniao

I was "lucky" to see it just after I read this article. Installed Earthscape. It quit around one minute after launching. The safe mode notice appeared after the springboard was automatically refreshed.

September 19 2008 at 9:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
josh

this just happened to me as i read this! i was using veecy

September 19 2008 at 8:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jimeh

I see some people in the comments here has run into the never-ending Apple logo on boot problem. I've had the same problem a lot of times, but I've thankfully figured out how to fix it in 2-5 minutes without restoring or any data loss.

I posted about it here: http://blog.zydev.info/2008/08/30/fix-for-the-never-ending-apple-logo-during-iphone-boot-problem/

P.S. This is obviously only or jailbroken iPhones... lol

September 19 2008 at 6:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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