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Need Help Badly : My Phone is LOCKED

I use pattern to unlock my Galaxy S, but my son played with my phone and accidentally input too many patterns and make my phone only can be unlocked by signing into google account.
I typed my correct gmail user name and password, but still can't sign in and unlock the phone. I am also using APN ON/OFF application, and the APN status is OFF. I am thinking maybe it makes my phone unable to connect to the Internet and sign in to gmail.
Is there anyone know how to solve this problem without resetting the phone into factory default? And if I need to factory reset my phone, how can I do it because the 3 button combination is not working with my Galaxy S?
I'll be grateful if there is someone who can help

Many people have had this issue to some extend, most of them simply reflash the phone since that fixes it.
I remember someone wrote that you somehow could bypass it, sadly cant seem to locate the post anymore.
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found it.
nalinbhatt said:
Try to put your gmail login info from all different gmail account you have.
Also try this. Take out battery>wait for 3 hours > but the battery back > press power button for 20 seconds (This method was listed by one guy on other forum).
One guy also mentioned this method.
AGAIN ITS the lamest thing you could ever think of, anyway heres how it goes,
1) Log in to your google account on your pc, the same account you registered for your phone
2) After logging in look at the top right corner of your inbox/email page, it would say your google username. Like say if you name is John, and you have a google id thats registered to your galaxy s as ,[email protected] Now this google id on the top right corner of the page would be displayed [email protected]
3) Type in the google id, thats visible on the right hand top corner of your page ([email protected]) into your galaxy s handset locked page, and type in the password.
TADA AND YOUR ON TO THE NEW SCREEN TELLING YOU TO PUT IN ANOTHER PATTERN.
Thanks
Zoh
If you cant login by computer then go here
HTML Code:
https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery
...And if you don't remember your secret (recovery) question then try the following method (check the link)
EDIT: you can also try this (very helpful to lot of ppl with the same problem) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/39761478...d---Locked-Out
Any way try all the methods and let me know if it works...BEST OF LUCK
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or try recover mode and wipe all data
or try
this solution is with thanks to another person on another site...
You need a WiFi connection available for this to work!
1) Call your phone from a different phone.
2) Answer the call. While still connected...
3) Hit the BACK button on the phone (the arrow softkey)
4)This takes you to the home screen (it might take a few attempts, it depends on your timing. It took me 4 attempts)
5)Drag down your notifications bar and turn the WiFi on if it isn't already.
6)Close the notifications bar then hit the MENU softkey, select Settings then "Accounts and sync".
7)Click "Add Account" and select Google.
8)Sign up for a new google account as normal.
9)When the signup process is complete (and it must successfully create an account) you can hang up the call. (Do not sync the accounts)
10)Now when the phone asks you to unlock it using google credentials, use the ones from the account you just created. It will now ask you for a new security pattern, then for the same pattern again to verify.
11)Once you are back into the phone, turn off this "feature" until Google release a fix for the bug.
12)You can now delete the "false" google account which you just created from the phone. You should log into google and delete it from there too really.
13)Now reboot your phone. When the phone starts up and it still says "Phone Locked" don't panic!, Just drag the screen out of the way to unlock the phone, just like you did before you activated the pattern security.
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pharaohdk said:
Many people have had this issue to some extend, most of them simply reflash the phone since that fixes it.
I remember someone wrote that you somehow could bypass it, sadly cant seem to locate the post anymore.
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found it.
or try recover mode and wipe all data
or try
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Wow, what a quick response
I tried the last solution that requires WIFI connection, it worked and my phone is unlocked now. Many thanks pharaohdk

korekapi said:
Wow, what a quick response
I tried the last solution that requires WIFI connection, it worked and my phone is unlocked now. Many thanks pharaohdk
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No problem I´m glad it worked, now I can write it down for myself incase I run into this issue myself haha

Phone was stolen

Hey guys... my phone was stolen... how can i UNLINK my GMAIL account?
there´s a way to do that? what others things i need to do?
thanks
cya

best option would be to change your password through a PC and thus it will not connect anymore to the phone, as you would have a different password there.

Fekish said:
best option would be to change your password through a PC and thus it will not connect anymore to the phone, as you would have a different password there.
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lol...
of course...
why the simplest things are the toughest to be thought?
thanks...
cya

Changing gmail password is the best way (probably only way at this point). Any passwords that the phone browser remembers would be good to change too.
For your next phone, look for some of the remote wipe/lock applications that are available, so that you can kill the phone remotely. Even better, some let you track it so you can find the person who has it!
My wife lost her Milestone, and we locked and tracked it... and then got it back!

Oh yeah, if you did online banking with it, better change banking passwords

[Q] How to unlock screen lock with pin

Dear all,
I've forgotten my screen lock (pin) password on my note and have tried many times to unlock but still can't, how should i go about it? Anyway to unlock it? If no way, how do i do a reset on my phone?

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You need Hard reset
go to setting - privacy - reset phone (this will erase your data)
If asked you to erase SD card, say No
n wait, i have idea of application, which temporary unloack your screen. updating soon
Edit : This application call screen lock bypass
https://market.android.com/details?...uY3VyaXR5LmFuZHJvaWQuc2NyZWVubG9ja2J5cGFzcyJd
this will allow you to unlock screen temporarily, so you can take backup
Just Now i have seen they have added screen lock bypass pro
which unlock screen without reset, but it is paid application
read this
https://market.android.com/details?...ob21hc2Nhbm5vbi5zY3JlZW5sb2NrYnlwYXNzLnBybyJd
So if you have nothing important to care of your data, just simply hard reset your device.

can you try this:
in the lock screen, double press the home button to bring up the voice control module
after that, just press back, and you're at the home screen
weird that mine does this

jeremy.chan said:
can you try this:
in the lock screen, double press the home button to bring up the voice control module
after that, just press back, and you're at the home screen
weird that mine does this
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It works with only when you selected "None" lock method

Go to samsungdive.com and if you have a samsung account on your phone you can log in and remotely unlock (among other things) it from there. You do not have to lose any data.

wabz said:
Go to samsungdive.com and if you have a samsung account on your phone you can log in and remotely unlock (among other things) it from there. You do not have to lose any data.
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With screen Lock , How to enter in account setting?
I think this work if set it priorly on device.

huh? I clearly said that if you have the samsung account set up on your phone (which you do if you use samsung apps etc), then you can do this. To log in to samsung dive, you need to have your account set up.

Wife forgot password anyway around it besides hard reset?

Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.

Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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Think I've read somewhere that's it's possible via adb, but you'd need usb debugging to have been previously enabled before you got locked out.
That's all I got as a possibility....
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Thanks for the reply. Unless usb debugging is checked by default, I'm 99% sure she did not check it.

Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I don't see it happening I your case. It's kind of the whole reason behind a lock code. Factory reset is going to be your only hope.
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Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.

a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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We've tried so many times and it hasn't prompted us forgot password questions.
I see under the stock recovery you can still side load through adb.

a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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I'm not thinking our phones do that.
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I thought I would post what I think was the problem in case someone else has the issue. I think it is Gmail verification feature. It maybe possible if you forget your phone password, you can use the Gmail email password to get in as mention on some of the post? AT&T also said she should be able to unlock phone with Gmail password. Details below.
Phone has been reset a few days from posting this. Good thing pictures are syncing with Google Drive.
I believe the problem why the password would not work is because of Google's verify feature on Gmail. For example when you go on to another computer and try to access your gmail, it will ask for a verification code and send you a text with the verification code. I believe this was the problem because once the phone was hard reset, the phone would not accept her Gmail account password. After diagnosing this issue, I decided to try to disable the verification feature on Gmail. Once it was disabled, I was able to get past the Gmail password issue.
To avoid from this happening again I put Androidlost which will allow me unlock the phone remotely. Great App especially being free. My wife doesn't want the phone rooted so this is the best solution for me plus I been using this App since the Galaxy S2 was released and never had an issue with the App. I actually had the app installed before she got locked out but never finish registering the phone, yeah that sucked. Lesson learned the hard way.
Thanks everyone who tried helping.

If u have linked your phone with android device manager you can simply change the password to whatever you want on android device manager on your desktop.
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[Q] Fingerprint Scanner & Alternative Password Forgotten

I setup my fingerprint option and setup an alternative password. For the live of me I thought I picked a 4 digit number code last night but it's not accepting it today. What can I do?

It has to be two letters included with the password.
Your fingerprint isn't registering?
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Bsmith0731 said:
It has to be two letters included with the password.
Your fingerprint isn't registering?
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Yes, print works fine. Silly me forgot what I chose for the alternate password. That might help.

No, that didn't help. I have forgot the alternative password. The only way to unlock my phone is my fingerprint scan. This Sucks! There should be a way to recover it!

Hi, same happened to me yesterday, I cannot find a way to recover the "alternative password" for the fingerprint scanner. Have you found a solution yet? I guess a factory reset will do but I really don't want to do this after all the setup stuff I'm tru...

Solution
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.

South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Thanks. I'll give this a whirl. Thanks, it worked!

Bsmith0731 said:
It has to be two letters included with the password.
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As an FYI; it has to be at least one letter instead of two. I wrote it down this time.

South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Kicking myself that I couldn't figure this out! I also somehow forgot my "alternative password" and this worked like a charm to reset it.
Thanks!

South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! It worked!

South Park said:
Found the solution: Delete all the fingerprints registered (verifying by fingerprint or alternative password) inside the Fingerprint manager. When all registered prints are removed, the lock screen will go back to swipe.
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Thank you so much.

It's working.

Although this is a direct way, you won’t be able to see any of the options directly on
the lock screen because its hidden and you need to try the Alternative password for a few times until the “Unlock via Google” option appears.
It generally needs a minimum of 5 trials and fails for the Alternative password
before you go back to the lock screen and see the Google unlock option.
http://androidadvices.com/unlock-sa...rnative-password-finger-scanner/#.U-fr0fl_vX4
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You have two options:
Delete all fingerprints (by going into settings & long pressing on the finger print, selecting remove) and recreate them. This will also clear you alternate password.
Go to Android Device Manager, and setup the remote lock & erase feature if you haven't already. Once setup use the lock feature to reset your password. It will allow you to change your "screen-unlock" password
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
Read more: http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung-...ternate-password-galaxy-s5.html#ixzz3A1tVHesG
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There are two ways on how to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, follow these steps:
Method 1: To unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, you can use your Google username and password to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S,
but these requires internet connection to access your Google account.
Method 2: To unlock your Samsung Galaxy S, you need to hard reset your phone, to reset its password and restore default settings, but doing this process will also delete all save files and data on your phone.
Hard Reset:
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Press and hold Volume button up + Home button + power button to enter recovery option.
3. Use your Volume button to navigate option and use home button to confirm.
4. Navigate "Wipe out data/factory reset" and confirm.
5. Navigate "Yes -- delete all user data" and confirm.
6. Navigate "Reboot system now" and confirm.
7. Done. Note: Before your hard reset your phone, make sure that you backup first the important files and data.
From: http://www.askmefast.com/I_forgot_my_password_to_my_galaxy_s_phone-qna472658.html

Assuming the fingerprint scanner still works, unlock your phone, then go to settings - finger scanner - change alternative password, run your fingerprint then you will be able to set a new password. No need to delete your fingerprints this way.

I can not use finger print on my galaxy 5s any longer now it is asking for alternative password, which I do not remember, help, do not want to factory reset.