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Coworker of mine brought me her AT&T "worldphone" SPH-I897 (eclair 2.1.1). she claims that a family member changed the lock code on the phone and no longer remembers it, and i cant factory reset the phone because she used the phone to take photos of her now deceased mother. she doesn't care if i have to brick this phone in the process, but its critically important that she get those photos...
there is no google account associated with the phone, so unlocking it via gmail auth isnt an option, and the phone was never put into debugging mode, so adb is only accessible from recovery mode. I've also attempted a hack someplace else on XDAdev which involved modifying and removing files in /data/data/, but this path was inaccessible in recovery mode.
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on what i can try next. I've read that custom recoveries can be flashed to the phone without root through ODIN, then a backup can be initiated, but i haven't been able to find a copy of a custom recovery that i'm certain wont brick this phone. i'm also assuming that the photos are inaccessible from adb when in recovery?
ugh... Help!
kb1ibh said:
Coworker of mine brought me her AT&T "worldphone" SPH-I897 (eclair 2.1.1). she claims that a family member changed the lock code on the phone and no longer remembers it, and i cant factory reset the phone because she used the phone to take photos of her now deceased mother. she doesn't care if i have to brick this phone in the process, but its critically important that she get those photos...
there is no google account associated with the phone, so unlocking it via gmail auth isnt an option, and the phone was never put into debugging mode, so adb is only accessible from recovery mode. I've also attempted a hack someplace else on XDAdev which involved modifying and removing files in /data/data/, but this path was inaccessible in recovery mode.
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on what i can try next. I've read that custom recoveries can be flashed to the phone without root through ODIN, then a backup can be initiated, but i haven't been able to find a copy of a custom recovery that i'm certain wont brick this phone. i'm also assuming that the photos are inaccessible from adb when in recovery?
ugh... Help!
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You can look at sammobile's program, SRS I believe it's called. It's one the its free feature.
Hi!
I have a Moto X 2013 from Verizon. I am planning on sending it in for a replacement via Motorola. Since they give you a brand new phone, you lose all your data from it.
I have tried for ages trying to find ways on the internet.
Before I do this, I want to know for 100% fact that there is no way to backup my phone.
Key "fact thingies"
-Cannot enable ADB Debugging (There is a password on my phone)
-CAN ACCESS FASTBOOT (Verified by checking fastboot terminal)
-Buttons work fine.
Any help will be highly appreciated, and, if you can help me get my data backed up, I will reward you with the Steam game of your choice (Up to $15)
HardBoiledGregg said:
Hi!
I have a Moto X 2013 from Verizon. I am planning on sending it in for a replacement via Motorola. Since they give you a brand new phone, you lose all your data from it.
I have tried for ages trying to find ways on the internet.
Before I do this, I want to know for 100% fact that there is no way to backup my phone.
Key "fact thingies"
-Cannot enable ADB Debugging (There is a password on my phone)
-CAN ACCESS FASTBOOT (Verified by checking fastboot terminal)
-Buttons work fine.
Any help will be highly appreciated, and, if you can help me get my data backed up, I will reward you with the Steam game of your choice (Up to $15)
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Give a bit more info, is your bootloader locked/unlocked.
Which data your want to backup, Photos, other files, app data?
What version of Android you run?
The password your have, is it a password, pattern, pin?
liveroy said:
Give a bit more info, is your bootloader locked/unlocked.
Which data your want to backup, Photos, other files, app data?
What version of Android you run?
The password your have, is it a password, pattern, pin?
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Okay, here goes.
My bootloader is locked (unfortunantely), I'd like to back up user created files, so music, pictures, videos, and the folders containing them, It has 4.4.4 rooted, and the password is, well, a regular password.
HardBoiledGregg said:
Okay, here goes.
My bootloader is locked (unfortunantely), I'd like to back up user created files, so music, pictures, videos, and the folders containing them, It has 4.4.4 rooted, and the password is, well, a regular password.
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You can give it a try with a OTG adapter and USB keyboard attached, this way you can probably unlock the device, but you`ll need some blind navigation with the keyboard after that so you can reach the settings
Today or tomorrow when I got the time I`ll play a bit with that and I`ll see if I can help you.
liveroy said:
You can give it a try with a OTG adapter and USB keyboard attached, this way you can probably unlock the device, but you`ll need some blind navigation with the keyboard after that so you can reach the settings
Today or tomorrow when I got the time I`ll play a bit with that and I`ll see if I can help you.
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Okay, will do
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Okay, will do
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I've played a while today with a keyboard and I can do everything, except to unlock the phone, the unlock ring itself cannot be operated with keyboard. Password input is okay, so it's navigation to Developer Options and enabling USB debugging is also doable..
There is an option to plug mouse first, try to jiggle with it and unlock the ring, since this is the only of few things you can do when your have password, then connect the keyboard, input your password and proceed.
After that there will be one more obstacle, which is to authorize you pc to access debugging, but this can be done with keyboard too, since it's a pop-up.
hm, not the easiest task, since your BL is locked,you cant install CWM, otherwise you could remove the pw with the aroma file manager out of CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2225695
Have you tried this?: http://trendblog.net/how-to-bypass-android-phone-lock-screen-pattern-pin-password/
And have you looked into this?: http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...ce-as-have-no-internet-connection/35848#35848
Another way would be removing the lock via cerberus, but this would require installing cerberus 1st on your phone and if your phone is locked but rooted but you cant access the phone directly or via adb then there isn't much you can do cause you have to access the phone somehow, either directly or via terminal / PC
I'm VERY new to this whole rooting, flash mode topic with any phone. I'm an IT guy, and have a Nexus 6 that an employee left behind after being let go that did not unlock the phone. I did a factory reset, but evidently since the flash mode is secure (device locked), when I start up the phone after factory reset, it requires me to enter the users email address and PW. I dont have that, cant get it, so now I'm here. I've learned how to use ADB to apply a new OTA, did that with Shamu 7.1.1, no luck, still wants last users email address info during initial setup. I need to take it OUT of Secure mode without turning on developer mode, since I cant get into the phone at all. Is that even possible? I have read articles for 2 days, tried several things, but am beginning to lose hope that this phone is not recoverable. Please understand that I am extreme newbie! If you have a way to do it, I would be in your debt, and if you could please put it in laymens terms, I would greatly appreciate it. thanks ahead of time!
you need to bypass FRP, another question is, is that possible. And it is forbidden to share such info on this forum.
Sorry mate, unless you find it somewhere else, you are probably stuck with a nice paperclip. You can try oem unlocking from fastboot, but doubt that will work.
Hey,
Today I have an unusual request. At the Sister on the phone after the update asks for a pattern and despite entering the correct pattern it is not possible to unlock the phone, unfortunately the fingerprint for huawei after restart will not unlock the phone. Unfortunately, there is only one copy of her child's pictures on the phone and I don't think I need to know how important they are, I ask you for help. What can I do to get at least to the pictures in the internal memory. I read about adb but unfortunately the phone has no SD card slot so there is nowhere to put it in, I downloaded some Google programs that either do not support this model or are paid $ 60. All the time we try to enter familiar patterns every hour but after 3 attempts he locks the phone. The phone has an original system, no root, no modifications and USB debugging is turned off (as is standard in the system, because it was not needed by the sister).
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Android is an open system so I believe there is a solution, thank you in advance! Greetings!
kmalcherczyk said:
Hey,
Today I have an unusual request. At the Sister on the phone after the update asks for a pattern and despite entering the correct pattern it is not possible to unlock the phone, unfortunately the fingerprint for huawei after restart will not unlock the phone. Unfortunately, there is only one copy of her child's pictures on the phone and I don't think I need to know how important they are, I ask you for help. What can I do to get at least to the pictures in the internal memory. I read about adb but unfortunately the phone has no SD card slot so there is nowhere to put it in, I downloaded some Google programs that either do not support this model or are paid $ 60. All the time we try to enter familiar patterns every hour but after 3 attempts he locks the phone. The phone has an original system, no root, no modifications and USB debugging is turned off (as is standard in the system, because it was not needed by the sister).
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Android is an open system so I believe there is a solution, thank you in advance! Greetings!
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Isn't it great to see Android security in action. Send the phone to Huawei for unlocking. Proof of purchase will be required unfortunately.
I can do it here: consumer.huawei.com/pl/support/postal-repair
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Proof of purchase will not be a problem.
kmalcherczyk said:
I can do it here: consumer.huawei.com/pl/support/postal-repair
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Proof of purchase will not be a problem.
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That looks correct. Contact them with the issue, i'm sure they can help you.
Unfortunately, after a phone subject to Huawei, I received information that Huawei cannot unlock the phone without losing data even for the user who owns the phone.
are there any other solutions?
I tried ADB but with usb debugging turned off I can't do it.
C:\Users\PC\Desktop\platform-tools_r29.0.2-windows\platform-tools>adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
C:\Users\PC\Desktop\platform-tools_r29.0.2-windows\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
C:\Users\PC\Desktop\platform-tools_r29.0.2-windows\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/*.* d:\1
adb: error: failed to get feature set: no devices/emulators found
C:\Users\PC\Desktop\platform-tools_r29.0.2-windows\platform-tools>
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kmalcherczyk said:
Unfortunately, after a phone subject to Huawei, I received information that Huawei cannot unlock the phone without losing data even for the user who owns the phone.
are there any other solutions?
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This is exactly how it should work tbh. There is no reason for the fingerprint and pattern unlock to change after a simple update. Either more is going on, or you are extremely unlucky. If Huawei can not keep your data, maybe you are best to get them to reset and start using backups for your family member from here on.
Edit: I know that is a bad answer in your situation. However, it should not be a simple process to bypass security on any Android phone.
There is no possibility to use other way of unlocking (password or something else than pattern)?
Try doing an 'emergency backup' in eRecovery.
adamdvd said:
There is no possibility to use other way of unlocking (password or something else than pattern)?
Try doing an 'emergency backup' in eRecovery.
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There is unfortunately no other option, otherwise a fingerprint would unlock the device.
How to make such a copy? After making such a copy will I have access to data? Can you expand the topic?
My phone is at&t LG V40 ThinQ (V405) and I have forgotten the pin password.
As you know, I cannot access to everything without the password. I connected it to the PC and the files won't show up.
It turns on without problems, but it asks for a password to unlock the screen.
I can hard rest it, but it will erase everything. I cannot even root it because I need to enable the developer mode and allow the bootloader to be unlocked via the setting.
Is there is any way that I can retrieve the files via PC?
hamooz92 said:
My phone is at&t LG V40 ThinQ (V405) and I have forgotten the pin password.
As you know, I cannot access to everything without the password. I connected it to the PC and the files won't show up.
It turns on without problems, but it asks for a password to unlock the screen.
I can hard rest it, but it will erase everything. I cannot even root it because I need to enable the developer mode and allow the bootloader to be unlocked via the setting.
Is there is any way that I can retrieve the files via PC?
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Are the photos saved on the sd card? Another good reason to turn that on if you didn't.
There is an frp partition for vzw phones that enables oem unlock, not sure it would work for a different variant though. Have you ever connected it with qfil? U don't need root for that, and in edl mode, you could save off user data (which is huge, like 40 gig I think). Not sure if your pics would be in that or not actually.
interesting problem. good luck.
AsItLies said:
Are the photos saved on the sd card? Another good reason to turn that on if you didn't.
There is an frp partition for vzw phones that enables oem unlock, not sure it would work for a different variant though. Have you ever connected it with qfil? U don't need root for that, and in edl mode, you could save off user data (which is huge, like 40 gig I think). Not sure if your pics would be in that or not actually.
interesting problem. good luck.
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No. The files are not stored in the SD.
Any detailed instructions to your suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks
hamooz92 said:
No. The files are not stored in the SD.
Any detailed instructions to your suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks
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wish I had detailed instructions to give you. I've never been in that situation, or resolved one like it. I pointed out some avenues I'd explore it it were me... but it's not.
maybe you'd like to look more closely at those avenues, maybe you wouldn't, that's your choice.