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.
subs said:
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.
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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?
Hey everyone,
I encrypted my phone and installed MobileIron to get work email and calendar. Ended up removing it all and decrypting phone after a few weeks. Since then, my phone isn't locking when the screen times out. If can be sitting with a black screen, but soon as I touch the home button it's awake and ready for action. It seems to lock eventually after sitting for an indeterminate amount of time.
Where the heck is the setting to control how long the phone waits before locking (requiring swipe or pin, not just turning off screen)? I know when I had the phone encrypted I found it and changed it to like 15 minutes so I didn't have to enter my 8 digit pin every couple of minutes, but now that its decrypted I am either blind or that setting is gone....
Thanks in advance.
UnexplainedBacon said:
Hey everyone,
I encrypted my phone and installed MobileIron to get work email and calendar. Ended up removing it all and decrypting phone after a few weeks. Since then, my phone isn't locking when the screen times out. If can be sitting with a black screen, but soon as I touch the home button it's awake and ready for action. It seems to lock eventually after sitting for an indeterminate amount of time.
Where the heck is the setting to control how long the phone waits before locking (requiring swipe or pin, not just turning off screen)? I know when I had the phone encrypted I found it and changed it to like 15 minutes so I didn't have to enter my 8 digit pin every couple of minutes, but now that its decrypted I am either blind or that setting is gone....
Thanks in advance.
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First thing is to go to settings > lockscreen > screen lock and change it to pin or swipe or something other than swipe until your device recognizes when you've locked it. If it starts locking with the pin engaged go back and turn it to swipe and see if it locks on its own again. Second I imagine that it locks when you press the power button to turn the screen off? Set your screen timeout to an obscenely high number so that you remember and get in the habit of locking the device by pressing the power button. This is just for habit because Android (the base system) engages the lockscreen when the power button is pressed and the screen is on. If you are running a custom ROM you could dirty flash to put system settings back to default and if you are on stock out of the box you may have to factory reset to get settings back to their default state. I know that last one is less than optimal, but if the first two options (changing the lockscreen type and locking manually) are not a good work around then you will either have to do the encryption routine again to see if it fixes it and if it doesn't then you may have to factory reset.
Is anyone using this feature? Worth using?
You should restart your phone once in a while, it will actually run better (if the phone is acting up first thing to do is restart). If it's worth? Depends on you, but for example I manually restart mine at least once a week as a habit, so for now that feature is off, if I change my habits then I put it on. On the other hand my wife never restarts hers, until she can't connect to make a call, so for her it would be very helpful.
Restarting your phone every now and than is not a bad idea...end of the day, it is a technology. Same reason I restart my modem every now and than (not once a week).
My mom on the other hand let her phone comes to the point, as stated above, till there is some problems. My solution? Restart. If you feel you will not remember...just enable it...i mean whats the worst thats going to happen?
I restart my phone every day. Not needed but it can't hurt.
Had a question about this.
Your phone is auto lock. If you - power button - restart. When it comes back on it askds for pin or patten before booting up.
How does this work with auto restart?
And i nornally try to reboot my phone once a week or if it starts to run slow.
But just wanted to know about tht
I don't have the auto restart option
It asks for pin password or pattern because all marshmallow devices that meet performance minimums come encrypted per googles policy When you first setup the phone any lock gets used for the already encrypted device.
Nirrik said:
It asks for pin password or pattern because all marshmallow devices that meet performance minimums come encrypted per googles policy When you first setup the phone any lock gets used for the already encrypted device.
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xile6 said:
Had a question about this.
Your phone is auto lock. If you - power button - restart. When it comes back on it askds for pin or patten before booting up.
How does this work with auto restart?
And i nornally try to reboot my phone once a week or if it starts to run slow.
But just wanted to know about tht
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I don't have this feature on because of the pin.a
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I use the feature and restart every Sunday at noon.
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Rydah805 said:
I don't have this feature on because of the pin.a
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So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?
fireguy0306 said:
So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?
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I'm sorry, I meant the secure start up pin.
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fireguy0306 said:
So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?
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I have fingerprint lock and I have auto restart available:
It wont work if you have sim card lock or password protected encrypted data, but the basic idea is: if your boot up holds requiring your password, obviously it won't work, since your phone wont be able to receive calls, SMS etc. until you input password and boot is finished, which could take hours with auto restart, you may not even know your phone is off.
My phone will fully boot up and receive calls etc., I just need to unlock it with fingerprint to activate screen.
This is my first phone ever that is locked and only because it was required for Samsung pay, despite the fact the credit card is encrypted and separately fingerprint protected (in other words won't work even with phone open unless I fingerprint again) so I'm not sure what's up with all this security paranoia, double password protection, secure folders, knox, full storage encryption etc. Pain in the neck and it's all only for show.
If I manually reboot It comes back to the home screen where I have to enter my password.
Where is the auto reboot setting?
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If I manually reboot It comes back to the home screen where I have to enter my password.
Where is the auto reboot setting?
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If you still looking: settings/search auto start
Hi there. I have the Huawei Mate S CRR-UL00. Here in South Africa, we stopped getting OTA updates after Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, which has been really frustrating. So I decided to do a manual update to Marshmallow using the Middle East update from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-s/general/huawei-mate-s-firmware-crr-ul00c185b355-t3411584
That was a couple days ago, and everything has been running brilliantly... Up until this morning.
Without me changing a damn thing, all of sudden the option to have no screen lock password has been greyed out due to it being disabled by "device administrator, encryption or credential storage". None of those things have been set for this. I've also gone through every fix I could find online, like clearing out the credential storage and disabling the device administrators. No luck.
But then while going through everything on the phone trying to find what could have done this, I realized that I'm no longer getting detailed notifications on the lock screen. But here's where it gets weird. When I go to the setting to change this, IT'S NOT THERE. If I search the settings, it finds the correct option, but when I click on the search result to take me to the correct screen, there's nothing.
I'm a little bit stumped on this one and could really do with some guidance.
go to settings > screen lock and passwords
go to password
go to pattern
draw a 4 point pattern
enter backup pin 0000
lock device with power button
unlock device with power button to show lockscreen
enter a WRONG pattern
wait 30 seconds
enter your backup pin (0000)
it should reset your lockscreen security password should be
set back to "none".
What happened:
Stock ROM, unrooted
I was using my Note 9 all morning, put it down, came back later and it asked for my pin. Biometric input did not work and can't get to the swipe screen.
What I tried:
I've entered the correct pin numerous times and it just tells me to wait 30 seconds and try again.
I can't use Samsung Find my Mobile since it was never configured
I can't power off, as it just asks for the pin again
I can't start in Safe mode, as it just asks for the pin again
Any help/suggestions would be most welcome
grimmoh said:
What happened:
Stock ROM, unrooted
I was using my Note 9 all morning, put it down, came back later and it asked for my pin. Biometric input did not work and can't get to the swipe screen.
What I tried:
I've entered the correct pin numerous times and it just tells me to wait 30 seconds and try again.
I can't use Samsung Find my Mobile since it was never configured
I can't power off, as it just asks for the pin again
I can't start in Safe mode, as it just asks for the pin again
Any help/suggestions would be most welcome
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Long press power+vol down will force restart. But I don't see how it's going to help.
That worked!
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Long press power+vol down will force restart. But I don't see how it's going to help.
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Believe it not, rebooting was the key. After that, it took the pin and I was back in business.
Thanks for the tip! I had assumed there was no way to restart, so I'm super happy now.