So I used this pin code for about 3 weeks now..
what i did was, I downloaded dungeon defender because it was free..
and it told me to do a reboot after install so i did.
when i finished rebooting my pin would not be accepted..
and also even if i fail a lot, it keeps telling me to try again after 30sec
rather than entering you google account.....
Im running darky 9.5..
SHould i do a hard reset? or reflash?
any other solutions?
please help...
Did you enter your google account and reset your pin?
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That's odd. That usually only happens if you make changes to the framework with a PIN enabled.
Are you sure you didn't also happen to modify the framework (theming, no-clock, other flashable mods) with a PIN enabled?
The only way that I've dealt with it is basically reflash, and don't enable a PIN lock until you're totally done with your modifications.
If not that's very surprising, and makes me think twice about a PIN.
first it never asked for a google account.... im on my 240 try...
one thing i noticed is that when i get it wrong 5 times.
it says "you have incorrectly drawn your unlock pattern 240 times. Please try again in 30 seconds."
why does it say pattern?
and fyi i never did any modifications with the pin... i dont even know how to do it...
and does reflashing erase all the data?
i just reflashed.
it didn't help anything.. the pin is still there. I still dont know the password.
is there a way to figure out the pin? like plug it in a computer and it tells you or something?
Did you do a master clear through Odin?
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Did you do a master clear through Odin?
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no i have not yet tried that...
is that the only way? because i really want to save my data....
but still thanks for the reply..
One more thing you can try is a hard factory reset (it's accessible through CWM). tbh I can't remember if it wipes all of your data. I don't think it does but don't quote me on that.
That will allow you to get into your phone temporarily. But you'll still run into the problem, so a master clear is in your future.
What data did you want to save?
You can use "SMS Backup" or "Backup to Gmail" to save your SMS/MMS/Call logs when you get back into your phone then wipe everything else.
I just wanted to get my app data.
Anyway I did a factory reset and it sort of solved the problem.
I'm not using a password now...
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have you tried rebooting the phone? i think when it happened to me the problem would come back after a reboot. if not then problem fixed!
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have you tried rebooting the phone? i think when it happened to me the problem would come back after a reboot. if not then problem fixed!
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That didn't work...
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Sorry I don't think I was clear. I meant have you tried rebooting to see if your pin lock cones back?
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Can you use adb on the phone? You could pull data or do something with the framework
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Hi there...Posted in the Firefly Q&A section but don't seem to be getting a response...I'm probably being impatient but it doesn't seem the Q&A posts are viewed as frequently as the forum itself...
I seem to be dropping my signal upon getting a call. It will ring for a brief second, and then it will go back to the home screen and loose reception, the caller will get a busy signal (didn't even know you could get those on cell phones...), and I won't get any missed calls (or any calls for that matter) in the log.
Subsequent calls have been met with no dial tone, and then straight to voice mail. At that point I won't have any indication that someone tried to call, not even a ring.
Is this a modem issue? I'm fairly new to flashing so I'm not too sure what's going on.
A reboot seems to allow it to ring at least, but only for a second and then the caller gets a busy signal.
This was flashed on yesterday night, and I'm pretty sure that was the first phone call I received since flashing. Tried calling myself from a home phone to the same results. Making phone calls works and sounds just fine.
Also: I am on Rogers if that makes any difference.
Thanks
Have you wiped cache and dalvik cache? Maybe a factory reset as well and then try it before you restore anything. Or Have you tried any other modems?
I have not... Im not exactly sure what I'm looking for... when I do figure out which modem to use... is it just a matter of installing it with CWM?
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i cant tell you which one to try that all depends on your phone and area
try the ones labled I9000 the one in firefly is jk4 fyi..and yes a simple cwm flash is how you install a modem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876391
Just tried wiping caches and installing the JP9 Modem...Still no luck...There seems to be some sort of error that pops up on the screen right before everything crashes but it only lasts for about a millisecond before it closes down...Is there any way to see what that error is? Can still call out and it knows its getting a phone call but it still goes to a busy signal...Will try a factory reset if there's no other ideas
Go ahead with the factory reset ... If that doesn't work try flashing firefly again...sorry
I just discovered this same exact problem today too. Honestly Im a complete noob when it comes to flashing and modding. I just flashed to firefly 3.0 two days ago and i really love it but the call dropping thing is really frustrating.
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It would seem the Factory Reset cleared things up... I have not recovered my apps via Titanium Backup yet...am wondering if it's something that it brings back that is causing problems?
K ill try that. Just to clarify, a factory reset will just wipe it to a clean firefly right?
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K ill try that. Just to clarify, a factory reset will just wipe it to a clean firefly right?
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yes sir that's correct.
KayvinM said:
yes sir that's correct.
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miss, actually! as much i hate to reinforce the stereotype of females and technology illiteracy ...
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miss, actually! as much i hate to reinforce the stereotype of females and technology illiteracy ...
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oops, sorry bout that oh and I don't think u are reinforcing any kind of stereotype
One thing I did notice was that when I did a factory reset (I did it through CWM...should I have done it through Android?) was that SGS Tools was gone, as was Galaxy Kernel Flasher, and some others, but not ALL of the Apps (ie Spare Parts, Superuser were still there)...is there any way to get them back or should I reflash if I wanted them?
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One thing I did notice was that when I did a factory reset (I did it through CWM...should I have done it through Android?) was that SGS Tools was gone, as was Galaxy Kernel Flasher, and some others, but not ALL of the Apps (ie Spare Parts, Superuser were still there)...is there any way to get them back or should I reflash if I wanted them?
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No need to re-flash, you can download the apps through the market. Factory reset from recovery or from android will give you the same result.
When u restore with titanium backup don’t restore system files and data only missing apps and data .that solved it for me when I had that problem but my backup was from 2.1 and I was restoring it on 2.2 I was not sure if that was is what's causing the problem.
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Good to know, thanks, I'll keep that in mind when I restore
- restored missing apps + data, system data through titanium after having done a factory reset
- notice that i can't change the wallpaper anymore (same glitch was happening the first time around too)
- also notice that my system data hasn't been fully restored
- reboot and notice the wallpaper is now changed and system data is now all in place... however, a test call shows the same problem (phone vibrates once then loses signal, caller gets a busy tone)
- reset to factory again
- restore only apps+data
- test call works
so far, so good!
thanks
Don't restore system data at all! That causes problems as you clearly experienced.
i looked everywhere on how to do this didn't do much to help
i had a scratch in my phone and since i had already put my information in it returning it was not an option so i decided to sell it off to my brother i did lose on it but i don't want to think about it i am buying a brand new again after i have gotten rid of this one
so now i want to wipe this phone
i am not THAT parnoid as i am giving it to my brother but i would like to wipe it in a more secure way then simple reset i want the data to be very hard to get then slowly fade away as he uses it
i have encrypted the ENTIRE phone through the xperia encryption feature
i simply want to wipe it as much as possible before i give it away i plan on changing most of my passwords after this anyway (yes i am that parnoid)
is there a program or an app that simply writes zeros to the phone that i can have running for a long period of time a few hours that i can use before or after i have done a normal hard reset
i don't think my data is recoverable after my brother takes care of the phone and it will most likely fade away as he uses it but i am still very paranoid so i'd like to wipe it as good as possible i want to be safe
Hook up the phone to your pc and format the drive @ my computer, that should work.
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Hook up the phone to your pc and format the drive @ my computer, that should work.
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i was planning to use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avengermobile.nukemyphone&hl=sv
first removing all accounts and files manually i have no files so just accounts
then use that and "nuke" the phone then have it reset then fill it up with junk untill it's full then nuke it again
oh and to make it clear i do not want to WIPE the phone empty from everything including operating system i just want to wipe it securely to then perform a hard reset i DO NOT want to empty out everything making it an empty shell
assuming formatting it through then computer does that
it is still nuking how long will this take?
getting abit worried now
sorry for double reply
As you encrypted the entire phone you could have just factory reset your phone and all would be well, providing no one knows your encryption password.
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As you encrypted the entire phone you could have just factory reset your phone and all would be well, providing no one knows your encryption password.
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so that encryption password will never dissappear even if i do a hard reset it will now always need that password?
and it is still "nuking"
which it has been doing for nearly 2 days now
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As you encrypted the entire phone you could have just factory reset your phone and all would be well, providing no one knows your encryption password.
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As stated here, once you data is encrypted 99.9% of people are not getting anything off that.
Hi there,
I am just having the most weird thing on my phone since yesterday. Some apps won't open. I mean, I click on them and nothing happens, no error message, nothing. I thought it was a virus so I ran the antivirus (trustgo) but nothing is found.
The strangest thing is that sometimes if I insist and keep touching an app it may open.
If I reset my phone it starts working normally again. Then I install my apps but if I reboot it...bam! I cannot even drag and drop the apps!
Does anybody know something about this ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Hi there,
I am just having the most weird thing on my phone since yesterday. Some apps won't open. I mean, I click on them and nothing happens, no error message, nothing. I thought it was a virus so I ran the antivirus (trustgo) but nothing is found.
The strangest thing is that sometimes if I insist and keep touching an app it may open.
If I reset my phone it starts working normally again. Then I install my apps but if I reboot it...bam! I cannot even drag and drop the apps!
Does anybody know something about this ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I'd say don't try to figure out why. Just do a factory reset, if that doesn't work, reflash.
If that doesn't work get a new phone.
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I'd say don't try to figure out why. Just do a factory reset, if that doesn't work, reflash.
If that doesn't work get a new phone.
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Thank you. I have done the factory reset and it works fine. It's just that I begin installing my apps and then I reboot it ( and rebooting always now to check on this) and that's when it happens.
I mean, if it was an app with a virus, the antivirus program would let me know, right?
arielito said:
Thank you. I have done the factory reset and it works fine. It's just that I begin installing my apps and then I reboot it ( and rebooting always now to check on this) and that's when it happens.
I mean, if it was an app with a virus, the antivirus program would let me know, right?
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I don't think viruses on Android work that way. They just steal some of your info
Antiviruses on Android are still at Alpha/Beta stage I believe. I think it was an app that messed up with your system files or something.
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I don't think viruses on Android work that way. They just steal some of your info
Antiviruses on Android are still at Alpha/Beta stage I believe. I think it was an app that messed up with your system files or something.
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i was just about to say the same thing you had, I am pretty sure a system file got corrupt/confused
Doesn't a virus/spy ware need su rights ?
If you turned off animations could do this.
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If you turned off animations could do this.
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Thank you all. Gosh!!! No, I am at the office so I cannot laugh out loud for my own stupidity. You know what? Yes, indeed, as soon as I flashed a room, I turned off all animations so that ( supposedly) it would have no lag at the homescreen. All this time thinking about a virus, a malware. I was even thinking that the ROMS I flashed were not working well, etc and it was that....OH GOODNESS!!!!!!!
Thank you very much! What I will do now is that I will set animations at 0.5 then.
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Thank you all. Gosh!!! No, I am at the office so I cannot laugh out loud for my own stupidity. You know what? Yes, indeed, as soon as I flashed a room, I turned off all animations so that ( supposedly) it would have no lag at the homescreen. All this time thinking about a virus, a malware. I was even thinking that the ROMS I flashed were not working well, etc and it was that....OH GOODNESS!!!!!!!
Thank you very much! What I will do now is that I will set animations at 0.5 then.
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There is a problem with the Xperia Z launcher where the shortcuts become unresponsive after using an aftermarket launcher.
To fix this problem, go into App Management and find Xperia Home, then wipe its cache
This seems to to do the trick also.
Got my Note 3 just this past Thursday, finally finished everything on it this morning, and decided to give it a restart. It went in to a boot loop that no matter what I did I couldn't get it out of. I pulled the battery, sd card, and pen, and tried once more. As with each time I got to the home screen, but this time quickly went into task manager and cleared memory to try and kill all apps in case one was the problem.
My question is if there is a way to try and find out if it was an app, or the SD card, or something else. I know errors are stored somewhere, but for all I know I've never had a reason to try and access it.
As always, thanks for any help
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Got my Note 3 just this past Thursday, finally finished everything on it this morning, and decided to give it a restart. It went in to a boot loop that no matter what I did I couldn't get it out of. I pulled the battery, sd card, and pen, and tried once more. As with each time I got to the home screen, but this time quickly went into task manager and cleared memory to try and kill all apps in case one was the problem.
My question is if there is a way to try and find out if it was an app, or the SD card, or something else. I know errors are stored somewhere, but for all I know I've never had a reason to try and access it.
As always, thanks for any help
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If you can go i to play store and install a logcat program and take a log & post it back here so guys can see what yur device is doing. If you cant get that far you may try factory reset and reinstall apps & settings one at a time to catch the bug
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If you can go i to play store and install a logcat program and take a log & post it back here so guys can see what yur device is doing. If you cant get that far you may try factory reset and reinstall apps & settings one at a time to catch the bug
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Well not rooted, and found out logcat apps won't work without some trickery in Jellybean and up.
But, I got brave even without my home setup nearby so I can fix things (at the BBQ currently) I tried to rule some things out, and figured out it is something with the SD card. I can boot normally with it out, and insert it after boot. I'm hoping it's just the card, but I will hold off till tonight when I'm home to try and fix it.
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A lot of people have this problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467005
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Just like another user on the forum, I have a dead screen and solid blue LED always on. Is there a way to use ODIN or some other software to access the phone data via computer to backup data and also wipe? Phone is bone stock.
Thanks!!
You can try to use sidesync on the PC to connect to the phone and display it's screen on the pc to control it that way...
That would be awesome but wouldn't I need access to the phone to install sidestep and run it before I could control the phone from my pc?
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That would be awesome but wouldn't I need access to the phone to install sidestep and run it before I could control the phone from my pc?
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I thought maybe you had it installed already. Sigh...
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KruseLudsMobile said:
I thought maybe you had it installed already. Sigh...
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Doh
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Doh
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Hello android geniuses! My cousin has this exact same problem right now, I came here as a last resort looking for a solution.
He broke his screen and lcd while drunk and he has insurance, but is worried about sending the phone in to be fixed/replaced because he has incriminating texts about buying drugs etc on the phone.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone with the screen broken?
My sonly uggestion atm is to reboot into recovery and try to factory reset based upon copying the button presses of a youtube video. He does not have usb debugging enabled and we can't even manage to explore his files through windows.
Thank you if you even read this, I am super grateful for any suggestions
Edit: We factory reset the phone through android device manager. OP, that might be your best bet too mate.
DieselpunkCyborg said:
Hello android geniuses! My cousin has this exact same problem right now, I came here as a last resort looking for a solution.
He broke his screen and lcd while drunk and he has insurance, but is worried about sending the phone in to be fixed/replaced because he has incriminating texts about buying drugs etc on the phone.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone with the screen broken?
My sonly uggestion atm is to reboot into recovery and try to factory reset based upon copying the button presses of a youtube video. He does not have usb debugging enabled and we can't even manage to explore his files through windows.
Thank you if you even read this, I am super grateful for any suggestions
Edit: We factory reset the phone through android device manager. OP, that might be your best bet too mate.
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What's the phone number? Post it here so everybody knows where they can get drugs! LOL
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Doh
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Doh to you
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Maybe you can try installing sidesync through the google play store on a PC, but I don't know how you'd open the app. Maybe there's a way to use adb?