So this phone is from my friend. His GT-S5300 is pattern locked. He forgot the pattern, email and password. I've tried every possible way I could think of to unlock the pattern.. First is going to recovery mode to factory reset the phone but there's one big problem.. The phone's Volume Down button is broken. I can't scroll through the recovery options. Then I thought about using ADB.. Too bad USB Debugging is disabled and yes I can't access the friggin' Developer Options because the phone is still locked. I tried tearing down the case and manually tried to press the Volume Down trigger without the actual button from the external casing.. Unfortunately, the Volume Down trigger is totally broken and it's not working. Yes I also thought about using ODIN but I can't access Download Mode without Volume Down, right? The only way would be my friend remembering his email and password but other than that is there any possible way?? My friend frustratingly can't remember his email and password which is a sucker. Any help would be cool!
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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
my damaged nexus one screen has progressed to the point of a black screen all the time... i didnt think of it before the screen died, but i am a bit stumped as to how i now reset to clear all my data? i cant see anything on the screen, but the phone still has my google account linked to it.
doh! :-(
reason i want it cleared: may send in for repair and i dont want others to get my info, or i may have to send to insurance company for payout (they said to hang on to phone for now) and i dont want them to see my info, or may sell damaged unit if insurance doesnt pay and i dont want those folks to get my info either.... see the problem?
You can try this. Did a google search.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/28793-how-do-full-adb-wipe-help.html
thanks for the link...would work if id had debugging enabled before the screen died... adb wipes require debugging mode.
any other suggestions?
There's this:
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
But if you don't have Debugging enabled and can't get it to register when you hit "adb devices" you're probably effed. I don't know much about touch screen engineering, though. Does it still respond to touch as far as you can tell, or is the screen completely dead when the OLED display stops working?
This serves as a good warning for others, though. ALWAYS MAKE SURE USB DEBUGGING IN SETTINGS > APPLICATIONS > DEVELOPMENT IS CHECKED. There's really no good reason I can think of that would ever make you want to leave this unchecked, and this is an example of when it would come in very handy.
cant you use the clear storage function by booting while holding volume down, waiting 5 seconds, then pressing volume down 3 times followed by a press of the power button?
flybyme said:
cant you use the clear storage function by booting while holding volume down, waiting 5 seconds, then pressing volume down 3 times followed by a press of the power button?
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is this a commonly known sequence ? if so, please link to a list of all the known boot-up key combos. thanks
Kiserai said:
There's this:
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
But if you don't have Debugging enabled and can't get it to register when you hit "adb devices" you're probably effed. I don't know much about touch screen engineering, though. Does it still respond to touch as far as you can tell, or is the screen completely dead when the OLED display stops working?
This serves as a good warning for others, though. ALWAYS MAKE SURE USB DEBUGGING IN SETTINGS > APPLICATIONS > DEVELOPMENT IS CHECKED. There's really no good reason I can think of that would ever make you want to leave this unchecked, and this is an example of when it would come in very handy.
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the digitizer still accepted touch input as screen beneath began to fail. colors bled from the cracks and the images began to imprint in the screen... within a few hours, it was completely illegible, and then the next morning, it appeared as a dysfunctional unit with a non working screen.
i will try and methods suggested, but i have no way to verify success... thanks for the sequence.
well when you boot by holding power, your given options FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE, SIMLOCK
Heres the exact key combination
Boot phone using Volume Dn + Power
Wait 5-10 seconds to be safe
Press Volumn Dn twice
Press Power Btn
Press Volume Up
Phone should reboot after 5 seconds
i will try that... confirmation of success will be the charging LED turning off and then back on again?
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i will try that... confirmation of success will be the charging LED turning off and then back on again?
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of the reboot? ya. i cant imagine doing this without the screen lol. Sorry i couldnt be more help
You could also probably flash a PASSIMG.zip from the bootloader. That will overwrite all partitions so it should make it 100% stock.
It might be harder to do without the screen than the clear storage function though.
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of the reboot? ya. i cant imagine doing this without the screen lol. Sorry i couldnt be more help
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tried the method... and i think it worked... i cant verify, but thanks for the help guys.
You can easily verify that by sending yourself an email and see if your phone can get the notification of that new email (by trachball or sound).
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
I am sure that this has been covered before unfortunately I am very technically challenged. Let me briefly explain. My son has a galaxy S, his bottom 4 buttons stopped working, he downloaded an app which somewhat replaced those. He read that you can do a factory reset and it might restore the buttons. Mind you he is 14, in doing so it went into recovery mode. Now it is stuck, we have read many threads and have pressed just about every combination of buttons to try to get it out, I guess ultimately we are trying do get it into a download mode in order to reinstall software, none of which have worked, is there any way to do this without the home button, sorry if this has been rehashed many times.
stuck in where? n what button cant be use? is it bootloop?n sgs got 2 hardkey n 2 softkey + 2 vol button, so which one?
n u can do jig if hardkey broke
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Ok, I have made a mistake, I looked at his brothers phone and the model is actually model sch-I500, the buttons that are not responding are the buttons across the bottom, the home, back, search and settings. The phone is currently stuck in the manual recovery mode. I can toggle up and down but am not able to select anything due to the home button not working. I have downloaded the ADB program and was able to see his brothers phone. I am still not able to see the phone that is stuck. So I know the drivers are ok. I have read that the usb debugging has to be enabled. Frankly I have no idea if it is, it does come up on the computer as a cd drive but not accessible. I do not know what a jig is. Thanks.
jwhite0514 said:
not able to select anything due to the home button not working. .
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use power button to execute or select.
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!