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I use pattern to unlock my Galaxy S, but my son played with my phone and accidentally input too many patterns and make my phone only can be unlocked by signing into google account.
I typed my correct gmail user name and password, but still can't sign in and unlock the phone. I am also using APN ON/OFF application, and the APN status is OFF. I am thinking maybe it makes my phone unable to connect to the Internet and sign in to gmail.
Is there anyone know how to solve this problem without resetting the phone into factory default? And if I need to factory reset my phone, how can I do it because the 3 button combination is not working with my Galaxy S?
I'll be grateful if there is someone who can help
Many people have had this issue to some extend, most of them simply reflash the phone since that fixes it.
I remember someone wrote that you somehow could bypass it, sadly cant seem to locate the post anymore.
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found it.
nalinbhatt said:
Try to put your gmail login info from all different gmail account you have.
Also try this. Take out battery>wait for 3 hours > but the battery back > press power button for 20 seconds (This method was listed by one guy on other forum).
One guy also mentioned this method.
AGAIN ITS the lamest thing you could ever think of, anyway heres how it goes,
1) Log in to your google account on your pc, the same account you registered for your phone
2) After logging in look at the top right corner of your inbox/email page, it would say your google username. Like say if you name is John, and you have a google id thats registered to your galaxy s as ,[email protected] Now this google id on the top right corner of the page would be displayed [email protected]
3) Type in the google id, thats visible on the right hand top corner of your page ([email protected]) into your galaxy s handset locked page, and type in the password.
TADA AND YOUR ON TO THE NEW SCREEN TELLING YOU TO PUT IN ANOTHER PATTERN.
Thanks
Zoh
If you cant login by computer then go here
HTML Code:
https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery
...And if you don't remember your secret (recovery) question then try the following method (check the link)
EDIT: you can also try this (very helpful to lot of ppl with the same problem) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/39761478...d---Locked-Out
Any way try all the methods and let me know if it works...BEST OF LUCK
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or try recover mode and wipe all data
or try
this solution is with thanks to another person on another site...
You need a WiFi connection available for this to work!
1) Call your phone from a different phone.
2) Answer the call. While still connected...
3) Hit the BACK button on the phone (the arrow softkey)
4)This takes you to the home screen (it might take a few attempts, it depends on your timing. It took me 4 attempts)
5)Drag down your notifications bar and turn the WiFi on if it isn't already.
6)Close the notifications bar then hit the MENU softkey, select Settings then "Accounts and sync".
7)Click "Add Account" and select Google.
8)Sign up for a new google account as normal.
9)When the signup process is complete (and it must successfully create an account) you can hang up the call. (Do not sync the accounts)
10)Now when the phone asks you to unlock it using google credentials, use the ones from the account you just created. It will now ask you for a new security pattern, then for the same pattern again to verify.
11)Once you are back into the phone, turn off this "feature" until Google release a fix for the bug.
12)You can now delete the "false" google account which you just created from the phone. You should log into google and delete it from there too really.
13)Now reboot your phone. When the phone starts up and it still says "Phone Locked" don't panic!, Just drag the screen out of the way to unlock the phone, just like you did before you activated the pattern security.
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pharaohdk said:
Many people have had this issue to some extend, most of them simply reflash the phone since that fixes it.
I remember someone wrote that you somehow could bypass it, sadly cant seem to locate the post anymore.
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found it.
or try recover mode and wipe all data
or try
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Wow, what a quick response
I tried the last solution that requires WIFI connection, it worked and my phone is unlocked now. Many thanks pharaohdk
korekapi said:
Wow, what a quick response
I tried the last solution that requires WIFI connection, it worked and my phone is unlocked now. Many thanks pharaohdk
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No problem I´m glad it worked, now I can write it down for myself incase I run into this issue myself haha
I made the the mistake of activating the lockscreen password feature of my Galaxy Note and now I can't seem to deactivate the feature. When trying to turn off screen lock password under the security menu - you will see in the screenshot that it "deactivate" option is greyed out.
Anyone know why its like this? How to go around this problem? By the way, I am using ICS Version 4.0.3.
kuplet said:
I made the the mistake of activating the lockscreen password feature of my Galaxy Note and now I can't seem to deactivate the feature. When trying to turn off screen lock password under the security menu - you will see in the screenshot that it "deactivate" option is greyed out.
Anyone know why its like this? How to go around this problem? By the way, I am using ICS Version 4.0.3.
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if its a custom ROM...try Reflashing !!
Rulinglionadi said:
if its a custom ROM...try Reflashing !!
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Nope its not a custom ROM. I'm using the official update from Samsung.
setting - security - screen lock - select None
Edit : sorry just now seen screenshot, its not available for you.
are using any password storage appl n deleted it?
I think wiping can solve this, but not advisable on ICS.
have you tried changing the option ? Like selecting Pin Number, Then see if 'None' becomes selectable ?
Sure is strange
kuplet said:
I made the the mistake of activating the lockscreen password feature of my Galaxy Note and now I can't seem to deactivate the feature. When trying to turn off screen lock password under the security menu - you will see in the screenshot that it "deactivate" option is greyed out.
Anyone know why its like this? How to go around this problem? By the way, I am using ICS Version 4.0.3.
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Hi,
If you go to the samsungdive.com website and register your device, you will be able to reset any activation priorly set with the remote 'unlock screen' feature.
Pierrick
Thanks for all the replies. Was able to finally reset the "unlock screen" by doing it via the samsungdrive website. Now its back to its default setting which is "swype". Thanks all!
i've the same problem!
I've samsung galaxy note 2.. and i'm going through the same thing.. however, samsungdive.com hasn't solved the problem!! i'm really stuck and i want to cancel that lock screen password.. other options are grayed... heeeeelllllpppp
aj_china said:
I've samsung galaxy note 2.. and i'm going through the same thing.. however, samsungdive.com hasn't solved the problem!! i'm really stuck and i want to cancel that lock screen password.. other options are grayed... heeeeelllllpppp
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Post it in the Note 2 forum.. u may get fast answers..
best98 said:
Hi,
If you go to the samsungdive.com website and register your device, you will be able to reset any activation priorly set with the remote 'unlock screen' feature.
Pierrick
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Thanks a lot. Using an exchange account locked the screen of a Note 2. This was the solution.
kuplet said:
Thanks for all the replies. Was able to finally reset the "unlock screen" by doing it via the samsungdrive website. Now its back to its default setting which is "swype". Thanks all!
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Ruud Westerhout said:
Thanks a lot. Using an exchange account locked the screen of a Note 2. This was the solution.
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I am having the same problem and i am hating this pattern thing everytime to see the home screen.
I will be very glad and very thankful if u can please guide step by step process (a tutorial sort of). Coz i tried but doesnt seem to be doing the trick.
best98 said:
Hi,
If you go to the samsungdive.com website and register your device, you will be able to reset any activation priorly set with the remote 'unlock screen' feature.
Pierrick
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Thanks a lot. Having the same problem and now solved by following this advice.
SGN2 screen lock option greyed out
aj_china said:
I've samsung galaxy note 2.. and i'm going through the same thing.. however, samsungdive.com hasn't solved the problem!! i'm really stuck and i want to cancel that lock screen password.. other options are grayed... heeeeelllllpppp
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Same happened to me, not sure whether you've had solved yours.
Anyway, go to Setting<Security<Clear credentials
i know this is an old post, but i faced somewhat of a similar problem. couldnt select any option but pin and password, everything else was greyed out.
go to settings---->security---->clear credentials (at the very bottom)
its caused by some certificate which doesnt let u remove lockscreen. hope it helps.
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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Think I've read somewhere that's it's possible via adb, but you'd need usb debugging to have been previously enabled before you got locked out.
That's all I got as a possibility....
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Thanks for the reply. Unless usb debugging is checked by default, I'm 99% sure she did not check it.
Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I don't see it happening I your case. It's kind of the whole reason behind a lock code. Factory reset is going to be your only hope.
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Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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We've tried so many times and it hasn't prompted us forgot password questions.
I see under the stock recovery you can still side load through adb.
a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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I'm not thinking our phones do that.
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I thought I would post what I think was the problem in case someone else has the issue. I think it is Gmail verification feature. It maybe possible if you forget your phone password, you can use the Gmail email password to get in as mention on some of the post? AT&T also said she should be able to unlock phone with Gmail password. Details below.
Phone has been reset a few days from posting this. Good thing pictures are syncing with Google Drive.
I believe the problem why the password would not work is because of Google's verify feature on Gmail. For example when you go on to another computer and try to access your gmail, it will ask for a verification code and send you a text with the verification code. I believe this was the problem because once the phone was hard reset, the phone would not accept her Gmail account password. After diagnosing this issue, I decided to try to disable the verification feature on Gmail. Once it was disabled, I was able to get past the Gmail password issue.
To avoid from this happening again I put Androidlost which will allow me unlock the phone remotely. Great App especially being free. My wife doesn't want the phone rooted so this is the best solution for me plus I been using this App since the Galaxy S2 was released and never had an issue with the App. I actually had the app installed before she got locked out but never finish registering the phone, yeah that sucked. Lesson learned the hard way.
Thanks everyone who tried helping.
If u have linked your phone with android device manager you can simply change the password to whatever you want on android device manager on your desktop.
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I setup my fingerprint option and setup an alternative password. For the live of me I thought I picked a 4 digit number code last night but it's not accepting it today. What can I do?
It has to be two letters included with the password.
Your fingerprint isn't registering?
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Bsmith0731 said:
It has to be two letters included with the password.
Your fingerprint isn't registering?
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Yes, print works fine. Silly me forgot what I chose for the alternate password. That might help.
No, that didn't help. I have forgot the alternative password. The only way to unlock my phone is my fingerprint scan. This Sucks! There should be a way to recover it!
Hi, same happened to me yesterday, I cannot find a way to recover the "alternative password" for the fingerprint scanner. Have you found a solution yet? I guess a factory reset will do but I really don't want to do this after all the setup stuff I'm tru...
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Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Thanks. I'll give this a whirl. Thanks, it worked!
Bsmith0731 said:
It has to be two letters included with the password.
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As an FYI; it has to be at least one letter instead of two. I wrote it down this time.
South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Kicking myself that I couldn't figure this out! I also somehow forgot my "alternative password" and this worked like a charm to reset it.
Thanks!
South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! It worked!
South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Thank you so much.
It's working.
Although this is a direct way, you won’t be able to see any of the options directly on
the lock screen because its hidden and you need to try the Alternative password for a few times until the “Unlock via Google” option appears.
It generally needs a minimum of 5 trials and fails for the Alternative password
before you go back to the lock screen and see the Google unlock option.
http://androidadvices.com/unlock-sa...rnative-password-finger-scanner/#.U-fr0fl_vX4
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You have two options:
Delete all fingerprints (by going into settings & long pressing on the finger print, selecting remove) and recreate them. This will also clear you alternate password.
Go to Android Device Manager, and setup the remote lock & erase feature if you haven't already. Once setup use the lock feature to reset your password. It will allow you to change your "screen-unlock" password
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
Read more: http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung-...ternate-password-galaxy-s5.html#ixzz3A1tVHesG
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There are two ways on how to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, follow these steps:
Method 1: To unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, you can use your Google username and password to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S,
but these requires internet connection to access your Google account.
Method 2: To unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, you need to hard reset your phone, to reset its password and restore default settings, but doing this process will also delete all save files and data on your phone.
Hard Reset:
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Press and hold Volume button up + Home button + power button to enter recovery option.
3. Use your Volume button to navigate option and use home button to confirm.
4. Navigate "Wipe out data/factory reset" and confirm.
5. Navigate "Yes -- delete all user data" and confirm.
6. Navigate "Reboot system now" and confirm.
7. Done. Note: Before your hard reset your phone, make sure that you backup first the important files and data.
From: http://www.askmefast.com/I_forgot_my_password_to_my_galaxy_s_phone-qna472658.html
Assuming the fingerprint scanner still works, unlock your phone, then go to settings - finger scanner - change alternative password, run your fingerprint then you will be able to set a new password. No need to delete your fingerprints this way.
I can not use finger print on my galaxy 5s any longer now it is asking for alternative password, which I do not remember, help, do not want to factory reset.
Alright so I'm in a bit of a trouble right now. I did a factory reset to my P9 plus and forgot the google account I signed in and want to bypass the FRP. Methods on google really does not help because when trying the Feedback mode method while holding down two fingers and choosing the Help & Feedback option just doesn't show up. I guess its because of some kinda new security update so I wan't to know If I got any other choices to bypass ir and change my google account because otherwise I can throw this phone away in track. Any help? Thanks in advance guys.
How many google accounts do you have?
and if you have a phone number and IMEI # , i'm sure google can help you!