i forgot my screen unlock password, after trying for almost 100 times, i tried hard reset option by press n holding volume up button,home key and power key, then selecting wipe data/factory reset option. after selecting this option the phone still asks for a password. please help!!
how can i unlock my phone? or how can i reset my phone without password?? please help
2e or 3e recovery? naturally resetting should do it.
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as far as i know, a factory reset only deletes stuff on /data/data. The lockscreen stuff is in /data/system. If it isn't yet asking for a google account password (which I think it is, considering you tried 100s of times) you could just delete the appropriate file. eg. if it was a pattern, you would delete gesture.key. It would them accept any code.
Hope this helps....
Recovery > Delete All User Data or Full Reset Phone
Failing that try these solutions as it worked for some users :
Take out the battery, the sim card, and the SD card and leave the phone for 2~3 hours like that
Then put battery back in and re-enter everything and should boot
or
Keep trying your code till your completely locked out and no attempts
If you fail too many times to unlock the phone with your pattern, it tells you to try again in *** seconds.
It will show a button on the bottom that says "forgot pattern?" Click it!
Make sure you know your Google ID and Password...
Log in to your google account on your computer, the same account you registered for your phone
After logging in look at the top right corner of your inbox/email page, it would say your google username.
Now this google ID on the top right corner of the page would be displayed as [email protected] or something
Type in the google ID, thats visible on the right hand top corner of your page into your galaxy s handset locked page, and type in the password.
If this works let me know as a few people suggest its working
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Hi all,
I hope you can help me a friend has a xperia and he has setup a password for it but with letters and with the touch screen keyboard, but now he can not enter letters only numbers i tried everything(soft reset, hard reset, start up the bootloader etc.) but nothing helps.
I can not connect it to my pc with ActiveSync, i tried several methods to hard reset the device.
- left&right + power button
- left&rigt + soft reset (power + volume button)
- left&right + stylus in back
http://www.xperiax1.net/forum/xperia-x1/546-tutorial-soft-hard-resets.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437607
But nothing works.
Has anyone a solution how i can reset or flash the phone.
The date inside it is not important, important is just to make the phone usable.
Thanks in advance?
Try using the keyboard, DUH. Turn off the function or caps toggles.
The password is CAPS specific also
so if it is something like 2hOmosapian
then if you type down 2homosapian
it will not work, you have to type down exactly as it is suppose to be: 2hOmosapian
Thanks for your help but it doesn't work i tried it several times.
Is it possible to reset the password or to format the phone some how.
I managed to get the touchscreen keyboard on the display and i am entering there teh password but it is not working.
Aojo00 is the password that has been set.
tafil said:
i tried several methods to hard reset the device.
- left&right + power button
- left&rigt + soft reset (power + volume button)
- left&right + stylus in back
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I have tried the same you were into and also i failed to hard reset my device
Are you using the updated ROM version or the original?
I have updated my ROM version during March
Does anyone has a solution for this problem?
First, the passwort-protection is useful if your X1 gets stolen, therefore any hint given in an anonymous forum on how to override this does not feel right for me. If official bought I would go to SE service.
Don´t yell at me because I bring that up, but if "your friend" has bought the X1, beeing aware of using a business PPC with WinMob, with all the opportunities to tweak, tune, configure, so not a simple mobile phone, why does he ask you to help him with his password?
But if the password is the one your friend has set, and everything is legal, I wonder if the "0" (zeros) could be "O"´s or "o"´s, too much of them in the password for my taste.
Sorry, but even if my thoughts are not correct in your special case, you will agree that we should not help people with this toppic without asking questions, right?
There is an important side i would like to bring up.
I believe that there is a lock after certain times of invalid entries, in other words.. after some wrong entries, the system will lock down for some time even if you have entered the valid password during that lock-time.
So, my advice is to keep nice interval between each bunch of trials, say 10 min. top
Am i missing something?
Isn't there a puck code? To be used after failing to enter the correct password after three times?
left /rigth +vol down +power is correct
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.
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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.
I restart my phone daily, and after powering off, when I start it, I initially get the swirling dots, and then the screen to enter my pin ( white screen - not the lock screen). After I enter the pin, in get swirling dots again, and it then show me my home screen..
That is the normal behavior... Worked fine every day... Till today.
Today, when I powered off, and powered on, I never got the initial screen to enter my pin. After the swirling dots, it took me straight to my lock screen and asked for my pin. No idea what changed. I didn't decrypt my phone. Settings/ security still shows encrypted. I've restated 3 times, no difference. Straight to lock screen. Any ideas as to what has happened?
I'm on stock 5.0.1, rooted with auto root, boot loader unlocked. Nothing else. No change since the day I flashed 5.0.1 images. I did not disable encryption.
Edit: the only thing that comes to mind is that I installed last pass premium, and enabled it in accessibility. I then removed the app ( didn't like it) - not sure if that could have caused this issue?)
Looks like it is a known bug
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79309
I also had that problem, for me was the solution to go to security and change my password what i have set. So I don't select pin but password. Then restart the phone. If right is will ask for you password. And then go to you lockscreen. If it works you can switch back to pin again. Hope it helps
NightDivision said:
I also had that problem, for me was the solution to go to security and change my password what i have set. So I don't select pin but password. Then restart the phone. If right is will ask for you password. And then go to you lockscreen. If it works you can switch back to pin again. Hope it helps
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thats a post from 4 months ago. it would be considered old.
Oh I see it now. Haha silly me
NightDivision said:
Oh I see it now. Haha silly me
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thank you for trying to help the op amyways
FWIW- I'm having this problem now/still... On two devices, oddly/incidentally.
I posted this elsewhere... But I'm having the same problem. Any thoughts? I can post more details, but don't want to repost this everywhere that I see people having the same unresolved problem.
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* It used to be that when I did a reboot or shutdown and restart, I would have to enter a password before the system fully started.
* But now the phone boots into the phone without putting in my password. I can reboot the phone and it will boot all the way to the Lock screen, and I can unlock the lock screen with my fingerprint or my backup password.
* I am concerned that somehow my device is either no longer encrypted or that there is some setting which has stored the boot password.
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FWIW- I'm having this problem now/still... On two devices, oddly/incidentally.
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I just got this too after I've uninstalled Greenify, which adds an Accessibility app, and I guess it triggered this.
Reset your password/PIN again, check the "ask at boot" option and that's it.
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