I tried putting in a short password and it took some doing because of the small keyboard, must have tried a dozen times to get it done. In hindsight I'd say I put the wrong password in the first time and then had to get it wrong again in order to have a match and have it accepted. Then when I went back and put in the right password it of course didn't work. I tried for a while to enter in variations but eventually gave up.
The fix is pretty simple and I imagine many know it but some might not so I'm putting it out here. The only way the watch can be restored to functionality if you cant get your password in is to reset it. This cant be done on the watch since you cant access the menu, you have to go into android wear to perform the reset. Open android wear, select options, lg watch sport, scroll to the bottom and you'll see unpair and reset. While your watch is resetting remove it from android wear and go into bluetooth settings, select the watch, forget it. Reboot phone.
At that point you're going to have to go through setup again, it's pretty easy with these phones so not a big deal.
Do not remove the watch from android wear while a password is set, you will not be able to access the recovery to reset it on the watch and you will not be able to connect the phone to it when it is locked down with a password. Make sure the watch is reset before you remove it from android wear.
One last thing, if you want to do better than a pattern IMO go for a PIN. Its fairly easy to hit the much less crowded numbers board compared to the on screen keyboard which is a trial at best.
Hope this helps someone, it took me more than an hour of screwing around this morning before I figured out where the reset option in android wear was located.
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Every now and then i'll wake up in the morning with my Tytn II II prompting me to enter a password, i've tried entering everything and checked all security features and made sure the "prompt for password when not used" has not been selected but nothing works, my only choice is to reset the device.
My main problem is the alarm clock does not work when it enters this mode which means I have to set another alarm clock just incase the phone enters the "enter password" mode over night.
I've hard reset the device but still this doesn't help.
Any suggestions?
I also have this crazy problem. Every now and again every 1-2 days I'll switch on my phone and be prompted for a password. I've never set any and the only answer is to soft reset and then all is fine until it happens again. The only other notable thing is that after about 5 failed guesses is tells me to input a1b2c3. Has anyone any idea what's going on - it's driving me nuts!!!
(ps I've tried zenyee but still no joy)
Wow, that would be annoying. Sorry, no help here as I use a password after one of my former devices "mistepeared"
Along these lines, I get prompted for my password everytime I connect to my Vista machine at home. I have yet to find a way to turn this off either. good thing it isn't my work machine as it would drive me crazy. At least le me enter the password on the main computer's keyboard instead of forcing me to open up my phone and type it in...
Shafty said:
I also have this crazy problem. Every now and again every 1-2 days I'll switch on my phone and be prompted for a password. I've never set any and the only answer is to soft reset and then all is fine until it happens again. The only other notable thing is that after about 5 failed guesses is tells me to input a1b2c3. Has anyone any idea what's going on - it's driving me nuts!!!
(ps I've tried zenyee but still no joy)
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That is well weird.. Someone gets the same thing with an HP iPaq here: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service...47626+1201639304018+28353475&threadId=1190832
Unfortunatly theres no solution offered there either..
edit: I just had a play round after reading something and I think its something to do with the encryption for the SD card.. are either of you using it? If not are you synced to a work exchange server? Remote Device Wipe uses this code as well by the looks of it.. Have a read of this: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile...ows-mobile-6-storage-card-encryption-faq.aspx
The comments are where it mentions that code but the whole thing is worth a read.. theres also a document linked that tells you about device wipe if you havent heard of it.. I suspect this is related to your problem (in fact im sure it is)
Before anything is said A) I HAVE used the search function, but was not going to bring a thread back from the dead. and B) I am not sure if this is the right section (I am asking a question) or should it go in general.
On that note, I have the same problem apparently a lot of people have. I used the pattern lock, it was entered wrong too many times, and now it is asking for my username and password. No matter how many times I put it in, it does not work. I tried [email protected] @gmail.com etc. I logged in via the computer gmail and changed the password, still no luck.
I have way too many apps, settings, and files to want to just hard reset. I find it extremely hard to believe the ONLY solution to faulty coding is a hard reset. It is very easy for someone who does not have this problem to just say 'hard reset' or 'the time it took you to write this you could hard reset.'
There is way more to it than that and you know it. Customization and everything. Grocery lists and such written up, notes, etc.
After the amount of people that have this issue, Google has YET to fix this issue with the phones? I cant find anywhere to actually contact google themselves to ask about this issue without being sent to a 'support forum.' It clearly is faulty coding that the logging in does not work. Do they read these forums?
The answer to bad programming to a smartphone should never just be do a reset, that is the worst solution ever (it is equally as bad as geeksquad or any other telling you you have 1 virus, we must format your entire hard drive).
Unless I missed over something, is there a solution to this yet? I hope so.. I do not want to hard reset.
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Before anything is said A) I HAVE used the search function, but was not going to bring a thread back from the dead. and B) I am not sure if this is the right section (I am asking a question) or should it go in general.
On that note, I have the same problem apparently a lot of people have. I used the pattern lock, it was entered wrong too many times, and now it is asking for my username and password. No matter how many times I put it in, it does not work. I tried [email protected] @gmail.com etc. I logged in via the computer gmail and changed the password, still no luck.
I have way too many apps, settings, and files to want to just hard reset. I find it extremely hard to believe the ONLY solution to faulty coding is a hard reset. It is very easy for someone who does not have this problem to just say 'hard reset' or 'the time it took you to write this you could hard reset.'
There is way more to it than that and you know it. Customization and everything. Grocery lists and such written up, notes, etc.
After the amount of people that have this issue, Google has YET to fix this issue with the phones? I cant find anywhere to actually contact google themselves to ask about this issue without being sent to a 'support forum.' It clearly is faulty coding that the logging in does not work. Do they read these forums?
The answer to bad programming to a smartphone should never just be do a reset, that is the worst solution ever (it is equally as bad as geeksquad or any other telling you you have 1 virus, we must format your entire hard drive).
Unless I missed over something, is there a solution to this yet? I hope so.. I do not want to hard reset.
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The creator of xkcd had this problem, he used this
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3006#c28
Thank you so much!!!! IT WORKED. You don't know (or maybe you do) how many headaches you just saved me.
This is awesome. I hope the other people that had this issue found this solution. I will post it in a new post, maybe it can be stickied if people continue to have this issue.
So, in summary, to fix this without wiping your phone, you:
1. Get someone to call you.
2. After answering, flip the screen open and shut repeatedly, tapping the “home” button every few flips. Eventually you’ll drop through to your home screen. This may take a few tries.
3. Go into your security settings and disable the unlock pattern. You can now bypass the lockout just by opening the keyboard.
4. Change the password on your account, which may be your Google Apps account if you have one.
5. In a few moments, your phone will fail to sync with email and prompt you for a password. Enter the new password.
6. You can now log in with the new password. Lock your screen, press menu to try unlocking it, and enter your new information. This should unlock your phone.
I'm having the same issues as takef0cusin above, arriving in a slightly different way. I was properly registered on 1.0.0 and used auto nooter 2.12.15. That went fine and there were no problems, but I decided to upgrade to 1.0.1 after some Wifi dropping issues. So I decided to flash back the the clean stock ROM.
I did the re-image holding down the power button 8 times, then I did the "three button data reset". Everything seemed to go fine, but it still started with the Logic PD Zoom screen and it never gave me the opportunity to re-register. Owner and Account are listed as unavailable. I then tried again using the "Erase and Deregister Device" method. Same results.
The new icons from the rooting are there, which makes me wonder if I actually had a successful flash back. I tried to register with the Gmail icon. It let me put in my email username and password. I acts like it is going to work, starts to load my conversations, then returns to the NC Home screen. I also tried to go through YouTube, but after registering I get "There was a problem with the network [401]". The Wifi still works, it still gets me the news, but the weather won't load because it says it there's location available.
What do I try next? I'm afraid to do anything because of all the warnings to re-register the NC first thing after any of these upgrades.
Thanks and Happy Holidays, OKMD
I've been through all this twice now. The second time was exactly as you have described and all I did was to redo the 3 button data reset. I was then able to re-register it.
Did it pop up to tell/ask you to register, or did you have to go looking somehow? Mine isn't asking and I don't know how to force it. Thanks.
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Did it pop up to tell/ask you to register, or did you have to go looking somehow? Mine isn't asking and I don't know how to force it. Thanks.
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If memory serves, after clearing data it comes up with screens where you select time zones, state, city, etc and then it asks for your user name and password. All this happens automatically after you do the 3 finger data reset.
Quick back story, bought ZW3 and turns out it never made any sounds. Purchased a second one while the first went back to Asus for repair. When I got it back, I confirmed that it was working fine and then I shut it down, out it back in it's original box and put in closet.
After spending the normal time getting the watch and the phone to work as I wanted, I believe everything was working as it should. Then AW 2.0 finally came, and a little more learning, no problem. But then the phone goes to Android 8.0.0 and and I'm back to frustrations, such as no longer when you select your watch in the BT list of paired devices, does it say "connecting" or does the BT icon ever show it's connected, battery life now sucks, blah blah blah.
About 4 weeks ago, ZW3 #2 half the time the sound is low in volume and distorted like a severely blown speaker. So I shut shut it down and pull out ZW #1 and it doesn't want to connect to AW. Eventually I end up defaulting it but holy shizzle sticks! It takes forever to load ll apps and finally update to AW 2.0.... like more than half a day!
Now I bring you to yesterday and ZW #1 stops making sounds altogether AGAIN and on top of all that, I can't get either watch to be seen or therefore connected to AW on the phone. I have repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled the app on the phone and 90% of the time it opens and sits on a white screen with the logo. Other times it goes to the "Set Up" screen and the first time I set the permissions and such, and after that it goes to the "Select your device" screen but never sees either one.
Now, if I "forget" the devices on the BT setting screen, it pops up with the request to pair and the code, but that makes no difference in AW functioning.
So, What little hidden step am I missing? I should be able to switch back and forth between to identically set up devices, or at least connect to one. So frustrated, plus now I have to figure out how to get Asus to realize that they didn't fix sh!t.
send all three in and tell them to give one good one.
You know you have to have both watches paired to phone, You cant just take second zw3 out and try to use it like it was the first one, do you? Yes? Ok.
Now if there is still problem:
1.Factory reset watch (unpair from phone from within the watch settings)
2.reset wireless connections on phone (will loose all wifi networks and BT paired devices)-but this helped me get rid of wear app misbehaving (like you wrote-forever sitting on splash screen,etc.),
3.clear data and cache of Wear app and then uninstall it
4.Restart phone.
5.Pair the watch.
I bought a new G6 (unlocked) for my sister, who lives in another state. She activated the new phone last night (Mint Mobile). When she got to the screen asking for entry of a password to protect against unauthorized use she entered a complex password (she didn't know she could just skip that screen). She wrote the password down, but now she can't find it. I called her this morning and she was able to use the fingerprint scanner to open the phone enough to answer my call, but she can't get to her apps.
I am aware that this sounds a little "fishy", but I didn't know where else to turn. Is there any way to reset or remove that password? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Jerry
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I bought a new G6 (unlocked) for my sister, who lives in another state. She activated the new phone last night (Mint Mobile). When she got to the screen asking for entry of a password to protect against unauthorized use she entered a complex password (she didn't know she could just skip that screen). She wrote the password down, but now she can't find it. I called her this morning and she was able to use the fingerprint scanner to open the phone enough to answer my call, but she can't get to her apps.
I am aware that this sounds a little "fishy", but I didn't know where else to turn. Is there any way to reset or remove that password? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Jerry
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She can boot to recovery and reset the whole phone, the only option if bootloader is locked.
Got to wipe the phone and start over. tell her to make sure next time it's a simple password because she's going to have to use it every time to unlock the device if she has a screen lock set to password. even if it's set to fingerprint you have to enter the password anytime you reboot the device to unlock it the first time.
It's there to prevent unauthorized use so no there's no way around it. Except for factory resetting. even then make sure she logs in with the same Google account because she probably enabled factory reset protection as well.
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Got to wipe the phone and start over. tell her to make sure next time it's a simple password because she's going to have to use it every time to unlock the device if she has a screen lock set to password. even if it's set to fingerprint you have to enter the password anytime you reboot the device to unlock it the first time.
It's there to prevent unauthorized use so no there's no way around it. Except for factory resetting. even then make sure she logs in with the same Google account because she probably enabled factory reset protection as well.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I walked her through the factory reset procedure, but when she tried to set up the phone and entered her Google credentials the phone said "searching" and wouldn't go past that screen. She finally called Motorola and they said if I could send proof of purchase she could forward it to them and, if approved, they will ask her to send them the phone and they will send her another new phone. She is still waiting,
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Thanks for the suggestions. I walked her through the factory reset procedure, but when she tried to set up the phone and entered her Google credentials the phone said "searching" and wouldn't go past that screen. She finally called Motorola and they said if I could send proof of purchase she could forward it to them and, if approved, they will ask her to send them the phone and they will send her another new phone. She is still waiting,
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That's a bummer. They should send another one though. It's covered since you didn't unlock the bootloader.