By chance I got hold of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GT-P5100) running a quite ancient Android 4.0.4. It was infected by the GVU \/ BKA Trojan Horse. The usual tricks to bring the device into Safe Mode did not work, like<\/p>\n
Moreover, Google is also driving you nuts when searching for samsung “galaxy tab 2” 10.1 safe mode<\/em> by reporting all kinds of variants to “push the menu button” – a button which does not exist neither physically nor is being shown during the boot phase as soft key. In fact the following variant worked for me:<\/p>\n Once you unlock the lock screen, you will now be in safe mode, which is indicated by a corresponding label in the bottom left corner of the screen. Reaching the Safe Mode for a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GT-P5100) running on Android 4.0.4 can be a tricky thing. The post explains how to achieve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schmoigl-online.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEspecially, the variant of tapping long on the “power off” line in the system menu does not work (simply, no popup is appearing). Some older forum posts hint you to push the “Volume down” button during the boot phase (in multiple variants); that one, however, brings you to the Firmware update screen…<\/p>\n\n
\nIn my case the GVU \/ BKA Trojan horse was out of a system a couple of seconds later: Using the Settings menu, I could remove the app “Browser Update” easily. After powering off the tablet via the usual way, and restarting it, also the “Safe Mode” was gone again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"