I flashed a Rom and it let me do this, "Password Protect Bootloader/Recovery" problem is I don't remember which Rom and I can't get the search the results I'm looking for.
any feed back is welcome.
I'm running 5.02
popper668 said:
I flashed a Rom and it let me do this, "Password Protect Bootloader/Recovery" problem is I don't remember which Rom and I can't get the search the results I'm looking for.
any feed back is welcome.
I'm running 5.02
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you can password protect twrp recovery, but you have to set it up in recovery. bootloader i dont see how a rom can protect, or a rwcovery, considering that on a nexus roms dont have anything to do with recoveries or the bootloader. are you sure it was on a nexus?
Are you talking about the unlock code to get to your homescreen? If so..... the numbers are setup like a telephone, 1-9.
123
456
789
So if your unlock code was an L, your code would be, 14789.
Hope this is what your looking for.
Sent from my Nexus 6
My phone can have a password to start up, it made me enter it twice. Onece right when starting up, then it would show a boot animation and ask for a password to start up, then it would boot up to lock screen. Idk what it was though. Maybe I'll figure it out right now
Alright, I went into settings and setup a pin password. It has the option to require pin to start up device. Maybe that's what your talking about? Its like a white and red screen that asks for a password and says encrypted on the top. BTW, I'm encrypted haha.I think I'm on 5.1
So I am a developer, making a lockscreen app. Part of the app allows it to set a system lock for double protection. Upon doing this, it set PIN needed for phone to start up. The pin I had set wouldn't work so I entered it in too many times and it wiped my device. The weird thing is, the default password "0" worked in TWRP but NOT to boot Android. Now, after it wiped my device, it boots up to the Android screen, and tells me to enter my PIN again.. It still doesn't work, but tells me in -1 attempts my device will be wiped. How can I just get this all to go away and start again? I have root and TWRP installed. Is there anything I can do?
I can't even boot into Android because it asks for the PIN, even though it already wiped it. I can't use my phone at all.
Flash factory images?
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Will this mess up TWRP?
DRatJr said:
Will this mess up TWRP?
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does it matter? it takes 10-15 seconds to flash twrp, or reflash. but anyways i have a feeling that itll ask again, i hope not.
Yea. I would fastboot erase and reflash everything. If bootloader is locked you are hosed.
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So I am a developer, making a lockscreen app. Part of the app allows it to set a system lock for double protection. Upon doing this, it set PIN needed for phone to start up. The pin I had set wouldn't work so I entered it in too many times and it wiped my device. The weird thing is, the default password "0" worked in TWRP but NOT to boot Android. Now, after it wiped my device, it boots up to the Android screen, and tells me to enter my PIN again.. It still doesn't work, but tells me in -1 attempts my device will be wiped. How can I just get this all to go away and start again? I have root and TWRP installed. Is there anything I can do?
I can't even boot into Android because it asks for the PIN, even though it already wiped it. I can't use my phone at all.
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Contact the previous owner for his unlocking gesture or code/pin and Gmail account, then factory reset and login with his account and when done delete this accoubt in /settings/accounts/. Then data factory reset again and it should be fixed imo. Or send your phone to the prev. owner so he can do it himself. Look here too http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-properly-prepare-nexus-6-resale-t3104504.
I've had this phone since it came out haha. I haven't stolen it or anything. The problem came because I was solely testing on Samsung devices. Here, I set a backup PASSWORD in case you couldn't unlock your phone. My app was a device admin so it had the ability to set phone lock and lock the phone. What happened was when I tested it on my Nexus, between making the password and setting the password there is the option of "require at boot", which mysteriously, my app automatically selected. Now the issue comes in when I rebooted my phone and Google did NOT let me put a PASSWORD it, but required a PIN. This was an impossible scenario because the android lock screen was set with a PASSWORD, not a PIN.
The even weirder thing was that my app automatically sets the backup android pin to "0" if no backup password is set. When I tried 0 at boot it wouldn't work. BUT when I tried it in TWRP 0 was the only thing that decrypted the phone. I am still not sure why this whole thing happened (Google not letting me put a PASSWORD instead of a PIN if the device is encrypted. My app automatically selecting require PIN at boot, and the backup "0" working in TWRP when it wouldn't work to boot Android).
So @gee2012 I know it may seem like another thread where someone stole a Nexus and wanted to break in to use it. But I assure you I am the only one to ever own this phone. This was just a weird scenario that hopefully won't happen again.
But for the sake of the question:
Flashing factory images worked! Thanks @HolyAngel
DRatJr said:
I've had this phone since it came out haha. I haven't stolen it or anything. The problem came because I was solely testing on Samsung devices. Here, I set a backup PASSWORD in case you couldn't unlock your phone. My app was a device admin so it had the ability to set phone lock and lock the phone. What happened was when I tested it on my Nexus, between making the password and setting the password there is the option of "require at boot", which mysteriously, my app automatically selected. Now the issue comes in when I rebooted my phone and Google did NOT let me put a PASSWORD it, but required a PIN. This was an impossible scenario because the android lock screen was set with a PASSWORD, not a PIN.
The even weirder thing was that my app automatically sets the backup android pin to "0" if no backup password is set. When I tried 0 at boot it wouldn't work. BUT when I tried it in TWRP 0 was the only thing that decrypted the phone. I am still not sure why this whole thing happened (Google not letting me put a PASSWORD instead of a PIN if the device is encrypted. My app automatically selecting require PIN at boot, and the backup "0" working in TWRP when it wouldn't work to boot Android).
So @gee2012 I know it may seem like another thread where someone stole a Nexus and wanted to break in to use it. But I assure you I am the only one to ever own this phone. This was just a weird scenario that hopefully won't happen again.
But for the sake of the question:
Flashing factory images worked! Thanks @HolyAngel
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Who talked about stolen devices mate, I surely didn`t! I thought that you bought a used Nexus 6 mate, and the previous owner didn`t delete his account :silly:
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Who talked about stolen devices mate, I surely didn`t! I thought that you bought a used Nexus 6 mate, and the previous owner didn`t delete his account :silly:
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Oh sorry :/ haha. Wasn't sure if it seemed that way. But nah this has been my baby since unboxing lol
Need some help guys,
I just manually flashed an upgrade from Lollipop to Marshmallow MRA58K on my project fi phone. I had a pattern unlock set up on my phone. When I put in the pattern nothing happens. The background goes back to the lock screen with the time and notifications hidden. Phone does not even tell me if my pattern is incorrect. Nothing happens!
I guess I can factory reset the phone but I want to avoid that if possible. I tried locking the phone using Android device manager to replace the lock screen, but it won't let me replace the lock screen because there is a lock screen already set up on my phone.
Any ideas?? If I can avoid a factory reset that would be best!
things I'd do:
reboot
open camera from lockscreen
click a notification prompting unlock code
clear cache in recovery
try reflashing the MRA58K system.img
Thanks for the reply. I think I've done most of them. Will retry flashing the MRA58K system image tonight.
Well that did the trick.
Thanks for your help
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Hi all,
Greetings first as this is my first post on XDA and appreciate all you guys contribution all the way through here. Back to the topic I got my X9 using in good condition unless of low remaining space yet some weeks ago during my normal use the machine suddenly froze and reboot and after that though I am able to unlock on the first boot screen, by using the same unlock pattern I cannot enter my desktop and it always tell the pattern is incorrect. Yet no matter how many trial I did it didn't force me to exponential-time-wait. I googled for some time and learnt that the same problem happened on samsung S7 and some nexus device (those HTC made ones?) So at this point I am wondering if:
- there is any chance I can unlock my phone without data loss? i tried "find your phone" on ADM yet over-riding lock screen seems no longer work;
- The machine is clean as-is from the factory without any s-on/off or unlock of bootloader; under current circumstance am I still able to install TWRP and get a back up being dumped? (seems I can dump a copy and use the pc script to look into the gesture-key, or simply delete the gesture.key from TWRP / aroma manager);
- Any other alternatives I can do? I really want to keep the data inside as there were some precious photo as well as some chat-record that is not being backup to the g-drive;
thanks in advance =)
On my phone I had an unlock pattern. I removed it in the settings, but lineageos still asked for the pattern. Unfortunately now the old pattern did not work anymore. I still could unlock the phone with fingerprint. I tried to remove the pattern again, but for this action the old pattern was needed and did not work. After the phone ran out of battery I restarted the phone. Now I can not even unlock the phone with fingerprint, because the first unlock after boot needs to be with the pattern.
I tried to decrypt my data with twrp, but it also needs a pattern, which doesnt work anymore.
Is there any chance to get my data back?