Description:
SafeMode for PocketPC is a system utility, designed to help you in certain situations when your PDA may freeze or enter a soft-reset loop.
It behaves somewhat similar to the original Safe Mode on Windows PCs, by not loading 3rd party startup programs, today plugins or services.
This way, you have the possibility of uninstalling programs that freeze your PocketPC.
How it works:
- If your PDA freezes or enters a soft-reset loop, soft-reset it. In a few seconds, you will see a message in the upper part of the screen, asking you to: "Press Action to enter safe mode".
- If you press "Action" within 3 seconds, the PDA will soft-reboot again and enter safe mode.
- A blue "Safe Mode" screen will appear instead of the standard Today window.
- In Safe Mode, the Startup programs and Today plugins are not started, allowing you to remove the buggy software - hopefully not one of my programs ;)
- On next normal soft-reset, if you don't press the "Action" key, the Startup programs and Today plugins are started normally.
Features:
- Plays a warning sound (you can have a "safemode.wav" file in your Windows folder, if that doesn't exist, it plays the default "Voicbeep.wav").
- Disables Startup Applications.
- Disables System Services.
- Disables 3rd party SIP plugins (only the standard Keyboard, Block Recognizer, Letter Recognizer and Transcriber are loaded).
- Disables Today plugins.
- Landscape/VGA support.
- SafeMode background is now the default PocketPC theme image.
- Small memory requirements (14 KBytes).
- Since it's a Service application, it doesn't reduce the number of available processes that can be run on the PocketPC (you may or not know, for some reason, Microsoft limited the number of simultaneous running applications to 32). Many PocketPCs come with a LOT of applications already running at startup, leaving just a few slots available to your favorite apps.
- Language independent (it works on localized versions of PocketPC 2003/2003SE.
- Includes a help file that is automatically launched on installation; Help file is also available from Start -> Help, and choose "SafeMode for PocketPC".
Update Description:
v1.02:
- Added Windows Installer version.
v0.75:
- FIXED major issue some PDAs; unwanted SIP entries might appear after booting in SafeMode.
v0.71:
- Added stylus support; alternatively, you can now tap on the blue area to enter SafeMode.
- Centered the message while in SafeMode (thanks Avi).
- Fixed a few issues with some PDAs.
- Fixed getting the Theme text color.
v0.67:
- Fixed issue with Korean ROM Startup folder detection. should work properly with all ROM languages now (thanks to Sanghoon Lee).
v0.66:
- Fixed issue with Password screen enabled.
v0.65:
- Fixed issue with Dynamo.
- In normal boots, SafeMode is now unloaded from memory after 3 seconds.
- You can have a "safemode.wav" file in your Windows folder, instead of the default "Voicbeep.wav" .
v0.6:
- 3rd party SIP plugins are now also disabled.
- Fixed issues with themes on PocketPC 2003.
- Added a sound notification when "Action" key is required to enter Safe Mode.
v0.5:
- Services are now also disabled.
-SafeMode background is the current PocketPC theme image.
- Added help file.
v0.41:
- Added visual prompt about entering Safe Mode.
v0.3:
- Added support for Landscape/VGA.
v0.2:
- Added disabling of Today plugins and a blue "Safe Mode" screen indication.
