Hiya,
So I've put a simple PIN on my device, I know exactly what the PIN is, however, when the device last booted up, there were lots of random keypresses (I'm guessing some software was trying to do something which kept interfering with the PIN entry screen) and it came up with a prompt saying please enter a1b2c3 as lots of failed attempts have occurred.
After giving up on this, I reset my device, the (software initiated) key presses were gone, however because of multiple failed attempts, when I enter the real PIN, the device wont accept or reject it, when I enter the PIN and press unlock, everything just stays the same.
Is there any way around this???
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YESTERDAY my phone locked when i turned hit the power button. i havent used a password device lock since i got the phone months ago so i have no clue how it happened. no passwords would work but i simple soft reset solved the problem.
TODAY i noticed that i didn't have a data connection like usual, since i always have push email running. opened up active sync and all server info was missing.
all i did was a system restore and got everything back to normal.
I have never had any of these problems and i figure i would share them with you in case its a bug of some sort.
every now and then my phone will say its locked; i am unsure if its a button i hit or what; but i then have to use my stylus to be able to hit the small icon that says unlock (or something like that) (it is frustrating when you are driving and the phone becomes lock and you are trying to hit that small icon with you finger to unlock it).
I must say though i have never entered a password for locking nor has my phone required to enter a password when it says it has become locked; but still is wierd that sometimes my phone says its locked and i have to exit out of the lock through the small icon (which is difficult to hit with your finger)......
hello77 said:
every now and then my phone will say its locked; i am unsure if its a button i hit or what; but i then have to use my stylus to be able to hit the small icon that says unlock (or something like that) (it is frustrating when you are driving and the phone becomes lock and you are trying to hit that small icon with you finger to unlock it).
I must say though i have never entered a password for locking nor has my phone required to enter a password when it says it has become locked; but still is wierd that sometimes my phone says its locked and i have to exit out of the lock through the small icon (which is difficult to hit with your finger)......
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your situation is probably that you are holding in the red phone button too long. that will lock the phone. mine on the other hand locks and asks for a password.
You know, I had this today. Got my phone out and the screen was much darker than normal. After a bit of prodding I noticed the left softkey had changed to "unlock".
I have no idea why this happene, though just tried holding down the red button as you said and it did indeed lock. How strange!
Yep. Holding the END key results in your phone locking. I used to use this method to lock my phone before S2U2 did it for me.
I believe pretty recently, someone found a way to re-map holding the END key. Do a bit of searching and I'm sure you'll find it.
FYI- back to the topic. has anyone experienced either situation?
I wish I had backed up my data before updating mine. I just trusted AT&T and Samsung and lost all my data. Here is my story:
1) After 4-5 tries, I was able to get update and it successfully installed.
2) Tried my gps but did not see any improvements, so I decided to rebooted my phone
3) After rebooting, I noticed that I was not able to enter letters for my password (after update it only allows you to enter digits) so there is no way to enter password
4) Spent almost 2 hours with at&t and samsung but no help, at&t store offered to give me a new phone, but doesn't want to do so until I can recover my data
I can still receive call on my phone, just cannot unlock to get to the homescreen. After couple of more reboots, now even the little keyboard has changed to a numeric keypad, weird.
Samsung said there was a 50% chance I will not loose my data, I do not understand what that means. How can you not know how your software behaves
I would appreciate if anyone knows and can help me recover data (pics and videos) from my phone before I master reboot (Samsung said that might work). any trick? hack? anything?
I am seeing similar problem. I reported it in my other thread.
After I read your post, i got a sense of what the problem is.
The samsung keyboard that comes up while typing screen unlock password is messed up by this update.
In my case, i am trying to set a numeric password for screen unlock(my exchange email enforces screen lock password). A numeric keyborad turns up on the screen. I noticed something wierd. The numeric keyboard has a key labelled '123'. The '123' key usually shows up on a qwerty keyboard in phone. Pressing this button brings up numeric keyboard. In my case(possibly your case as well), It appears that the software doesn't recognise that it is already showing a numeric keypad. Funny thing is that, when I type using the numeric keyboard, it is actually typing numbers in password field. But, it complains that I need to set up a numeric password though I am setting a numeric password.
If you endup doing master reset, pls share how it goes.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
I am getting new phone on Monday but will keep trying to recover my data before I master reset this prior to returning.
manojkreddy said:
I am seeing similar problem. I reported it in my other thread.
After I read your post, i got a sense of what the problem is.
The samsung keyboard that comes up while typing screen unlock password is messed up by this update.
In my case, i am trying to set a numeric password for screen unlock(my exchange email enforces screen lock password). A numeric keyborad turns up on the screen. I noticed something wierd. The numeric keyboard has a key labelled '123'. The '123' key usually shows up on a qwerty keyboard in phone. Pressing this button brings up numeric keyboard. In my case(possibly your case as well), It appears that the software doesn't recognise that it is already showing a numeric keypad. Funny thing is that, when I type using the numeric keyboard, it is actually typing numbers in password field. But, it complains that I need to set up a numeric password though I am setting a numeric password.
If you endup doing master reset, pls share how it goes.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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any update? I received my new phone and it seems to work fine.
Sideloaded 5.1. When it reboots (tried several times), it quickly gets to the device boot pin screen, where it used to sit forever until you entered the pin. Now, it will show the screen, but continue to boot behind the scenes. When you swipe up to unlock after boot, you get the keypad from the original boot pin screen, and the whole thing hangs. I've tried this several times and also disabled/reenabled PIN. NO luck.
Only way past is to immediately enter boot pin when the screen appears, but before finishing the full boot.
Second problem that many are having - trusted places (home/work) do not function after update. If you revert Google Play Services back to pre v7, it works again. I'm sure Google is all over this as many are talking about it.
**UPDATE**
More troubleshooting reveals that this happens only when you have both a startup PIN and SIM pin lock on the phone. If I remove the SIM lock pin, then it boots correctly, stopping at the startup PIN screen until entered. If I add a SIM pin, then it boots "through" the startup PIN, to the SIM PIN screen. Upon entering SIM pin, it takes you to regular lock pin screen, where it immediately hangs until reboot.
Anybody else experiencing this? Both pin's worked fine under 5.0.1
Hi all,
First of all, I would like to say that as a new user, I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this question at. If it is not, I would be happy to be redirected to an appropriate forum.
I have a Moto 5G plus phone. About 4 months ago, my power button has died. All attempts in fixing it have failed, so I ultimately downloaded an app called "Volume unlocker" that allowed me to lock/unlock the phone using the volume buttons. This allowed me to keep using the phone for the next 4 months without a problem.
4 months later, I encountered a new problem: when I try to unlock my phone, when I enter my (correct) password, the screen goes black for about 2 seconds, and then I am asked to enter my password again, in an infinite loop. Note that if I enter a wrong password, the phone says that the password is incorrect. This happened all of the sudden, without updating anything or installing a new app. When the phone is locked, I am able to do some stuff like using the camera, activating the torch, and using the Assistant (basically, all the stuff I can usually do without unlocking the phone). If I enter the assistant, and while I am at the assistant I am trying to unlock the phone, once I enter my (correct) password the phone says "System UI has stopped".
All the solutions I found online required either restarting the phone, doing anything that requires the power button, which as previously mentioned does not work, or having debugging mode on, which unfortunately is off and it doesn't seem like I am able to turn it on without unlocking the phone. So I am stuck locked and have no idea how to fix that.
At this point, I guess that any solution that would at least let me extract my personal data e.g. personal photos would be enough for now.
I have also talked with Motorala but they were not helpful at all.
Thank you very much!
Hello everyone,
today I updated my phone (security update from xiaomi) so i had to restart my phone.
After restart it asked me to insert my PIN instead of Print, so I wasnted to put it in as usual but the pin is just never correct.
IS there a way to go around this WITHOUT LOSING DATA if im the true owner with correct fingerprint, all accounts verified etc?
The phone is not rooted neither with custom recovery.
Method 1:
1. After typing wrong password continuously for 5 times, you will see a screen with message “Phone has been locked” with “Forgot Password” option at the bottom.
try that