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Help please???

Hiya
I bought a Touch HD off ebay which was an orange original unit but was unlocked so I could use any sim in it. However, two weeks into buying it and it started to vibrate as soon as I switched it on. I contacted HTC who replaced the whole of the internal boards and sent it back to me. i got it back this morning and now its asking me for a sim unlock code??? I get a white screen saying the network is locked and a long box in which to put an unlock code.
Is there any way I can re-unlock the phone without putting this code back in or do you think I'm going to have to ask HTC for a code???
thank you very much for any advice given
Bessy regs
Kenny

Well first of all, all Touch HD's vibrate when they are switched on, but I assume you mean it kept doing it and wouldn't stop with yours or something. And secondly I'm sure HTC won't give you an unlock code to re-unlock your phone as you say it is an Orange branded device, but it's worth asking them. If they won't help you then your only options are to take it to a shop to have it unlocked, or do it yourself at home via one of the many unlock websites. You'll have to pay for these options though.

Hiya
thanks for the reply
Ive sussed that it is indeed been relocked back to orange. The have apparently sent me a new replacement phone so I will have to get it unlocked( tried an orange cheepo sim this morning and didnt get the request for a code)
I cant believe I didnt think about it properly but Im that up to my eye balls with assignments and essays for uni my mind has been all over the place this past few weeks LOL
I was wondering if the unlock software from Oilpro might do the trick. Ive priced locally and it means being without the phone for four days and paying......35 quid to unlock it.
Back in the day when I had my SP3100 the software was free but I realise that I havent been a really active member on the forum- mainly because you guys are so damned brainy and I dont feel I have anything to contribute like you do. Give me a camera and I can talk for days( am a tog doing a ba hons degree in photography) but phones and techy stuff about roms....well, Im at a loss. Maybe thats a course I should take next LOL
anyway, thank you for the reply. Much appreciated.
I'll try to find somewhere to get the unlock software at a reasonable price.
Bessy regs
Kenny

forgot to say that it did indeed vibrate all the time when switched on( and got damned hot too) but that has now been sorted with a new phone.....

I did the OliPro way and it was easy to do. One of the cheapest options too I think.

Just tried to buy the unlock software from oliopro's site and tried to use paypal and it wont let me pay via that method. Its asking me to create an account and give my credit card details...
I'm not willing to give any details like that ATM and my money is tied up in a paypal account too.
If Oliopro is reading this any help gratefully received.
Bessy regs
Kenny

[Q] Lost & Found t-mobile Hero in London

Hi all
It just happened that I find a t-mobile Hero on a bus 52 to Victoria Station (I got off at the Royal Albert Hall and I notice it just before I got off)
I'm thinking about call one of the contacts on the address book but the screen is locked.
I haven't got any calls from it, so I can tell anybody that that phone is lost.
I'm reluctant to go into a T-mobile store because maybe they just get the device and keep it for them without even notifying the owner.
What would be your best advice in order to give it back to its right owner before s/he block the mobile's IMEI?
Regards!

Better to call the carrier, they have all his/her info
Great that you are so honest +1
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

melvie said:
Better to call the carrier, they have all his/her info
Great that you are so honest +1
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App
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He does have a saint in his name.. I would call one of the contacts if you can get into the phone, ask them whos phone this is... ( or you could root it for him and return it, he would probably be happier)

nijnvy said:
He does have a saint in his name.. I would call one of the contacts if you can get into the phone, ask them whos phone this is... ( or you could root it for him and return it, he would probably be happier)
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Lmao. Yeah, send it back with flash working and oc'd to 800+, so it keeps their hands warm on cold November nights like now.
They usually block them straight away. Ring 'mum' or 'dad'. They're probably on shopping holiday from Croatia.
And it was all yellow...

Brings you back to that song ...
All I want for christ-mas is root (Oh dear)

It may be possible you could adb in and pull the contacts database and get home?
Not sure - i have never tried. But I really do respect your honesty on this!
/me tips hat!

spikey68 said:
Lmao. Yeah, send it back with flash working and oc'd to 800+, so it keeps their hands warm on cold November nights like now.
They usually block them straight away. Ring 'mum' or 'dad'. They're probably on shopping holiday from Croatia.
And it was all yellow...
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how did you get to Croatia?

zolmajstor said:
how did you get to Croatia?
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It was a pleasant evening, I walked.
Hush...

This is the big failing of the pattern lock screen system... It stops malicious use, but also stops legitimate things like this.
I've always been in favour of setting a custom message on the lockscreen using CMParts, but this isn't a custom ROM (I presume).
What's worth a look is to try "adb devices" with the device connected. See if you can get it to show. This will only happen if the user has enabled USB debugging, which would suggest it could be rooted.
If it's rooted, it would be possible to retrieve enough info to contact the user. If it's not rooted, it's not going to let you get at anything...
I'm aware that any info here would help someone who had stolen a phone, so I'm not going to give away any of the tricks to get into the device by bypassing that screen.
Still, it's good to see some honest people about here... One suggestion. Remove the SIM, and put it into another device (non smartphone). See if there are any contacts on the SIM (presuming it's not PIN protected. If it is, you're stuffed from this respect, as some people might have used an older contract sim in the Hero as an upgrade phone, perhaps with a few phonebook entries you could try out?
Failing that, I'm not sure how else you could really do this You could go into the network's store, and give them the SIM, and ask them if they could get the owner to contact you, if you gave them an email address. They would probably be able to do that, as there would be no data protection issue.
HTH
P

captainstu72 said:
It may be possible you could adb in and pull the contacts database and get home?
Not sure - i have never tried. But I really do respect your honesty on this!
/me tips hat!
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That will only work if rooted, since you can't access /data without root on the Hero.
If you could root the device, you could sort it easily. The trouble is that it's a bit iffy... If the OP PMs me, I will give him a few suggestions in private, as he's got a long history on XDA. I reckon I can get the contact info out the phone (just had an idea )
Hmmm... Necro fail Doh!

Take the sim card out and put it into another tmobile phone, as the contacts may be stored on there, i know i do to save the hastle when getting a new phone, or use a micro sd card reader check whats on the memory card there may be some contact info.

I am glad to know that there are honest people like you in this world..

Found a locked S7

So I was fortunate to find an S7 edge that nobody has claimed, but it has some lock protection on it. I can boot it up and go thru connecting to wifi and such, but it asks for the previous persons email and password and you cant go any further. This was after performing a factory reset.
Is there a way to remove this? Could I flash a custom recovery and wipe? Anyone experience this before?

Same situation as me
Hey man. Just browsing through and saw your post. Kinda funny cause after days of trying to figure how to unlock the one phone that I found on the TTC subway in Toronto, I finally found a way. Message me here or on Hangouts, [email protected] and I can help you out if you're still having difficulties with it.

No one should take phones left at public places except if you'd take them to administration. Didn't the owner try to call his phone? Or were you hasty to remove the sim card?

Lol let's pretend the owner didn't claim or try to find / call his 700$ Phone , Please keep this kind of discussions out of XDA or take the phone to the police, i'm sure they can track the owner by IMEI.

xAD3r1ty said:
Lol let's pretend the owner didn't claim or try to find / call his 700$ Phone , Please keep this kind of discussions out of XDA or take the phone to the police, i'm sure they can track the owner by IMEI.
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I already waited 3 weeks and no one has claimed it. I found it at my work. Case closed

There is tutorials on youtube for that

If you find something, you bring it to the "lost and found" section of your local police office.
Simple as that.
Whiskey
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Lock screen with fingerprint & google account well but no password

Hello.
I beg for someone help us in this big mistake caused by inexperience:
I have just already married with my girlfriend (now my wife) and she made all the photos and videos of our wedding and family with her brand new LG G6 H870 (European model) three days ago.
She was using her fingerprint to unlock the phone all the times with no problem but by mistake we entered more than 5 times a wrong password and now the fingerprint unlock is not active and she doesn't remember which password she used with the phone. Therefore we have all of our memories inside it but we cannot recover them.
Please could anyone help us with this life-breaking mistake? We both are very very very sad about this, and even more problems will happen to us as a result of this...whatsapp receiving mote data that also will be lost, not using the phone SIM in another device to avoid losing the data in Whatsapp...
The resume of the situation is:
- She has her fingerprint ok inside the phone but the phone don't ler her use it to unlock and although the fingerprint is ok, instead the phone asks for the password that she forgot.
- We have our Google account ok configured into the phone but the Android Device Manager doesn't let us change the password to a new one remotely because Android Device Manager only permits that when no password existed before.
- I am technically skilled enough to understand advanced operations and steps on the device (recovery, ADB, writing command lines on a terminal...) but I have no experience at all in a situation like this and I am really scared of erasing or loosing this memories...
Please we would be grateful if someone could help us in this situation.
Thank you in advance.

You can marry another time....
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This makes no sense? If fingerprint worked, why were you entering passwords? Again, if there was no password, why are you entering one? Why not just reboot the phone and use the fingerprint?
There's something odd going on you're not telling us...

HellDiverUK said:
This makes no sense? If fingerprint worked, why were you entering passwords? Again, if there was no password, why are you entering one? Why not just reboot the phone and use the fingerprint?
There's something odd going on you're not telling us...
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Rebooting the phone also then requires the password to unlock. LG does tell you "if you forget your password, your local data will be lost forever" owtte. So... Don't forget it. They weren't joking.

MDW 100 said:
Rebooting the phone also then requires the password to unlock. LG does tell you "if you forget your password, your local data will be lost forever" owtte. So... Don't forget it. They weren't joking.
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Thank you MDW 100 for the answer.
My wife is not a computer's engineer and as the password asked by the phone appears with a full keyboard (and not a numerical one as she thinks the password is only with numbers) I guess that four days ago, the day before the wedding (tradition implies not seeing the bride the day before the marriage) she configured her brand new mobile alone and probably she wrote something thinking it was another field different than a password...
I know what implies the kind of mistake I am telling.
The reason why I am writing here is because I know that nobody would help us officially to recover our memories, nor LG nor Google will...(we tried so...) and XDA members are well known for their technical skills, surpassing almost all the fences and barriers...
We have our purchase bill, our configured Google account (user and password) and my wife's fingerprint into the mobile and she never thought that things were so complicated and unflexible...
I thought that maybe somebody from XDA, as the best forum for mobiles in the world I thought it is, would be able to show that in this forum the word "impossible" is not a fact but only an opinion...
Is it really impossible to recover our memories?
Thank you in advance.

Alejoven80 said:
Thank you MDW 100 for the answer.
My wife is not a computer's engineer and as the password asked by the phone appears with a full keyboard (and not a numerical one as she thinks the password is only with numbers) I guess that four days ago, the day before the wedding (tradition implies not seeing the bride the day before the marriage) she configured her brand new mobile alone and probably she wrote something thinking it was another field different than a password...
I know what implies the kind of mistake I am telling.
The reason why I am writing here is because I know that nobody would help us officially to recover our memories, nor LG nor Google will...(we tried so...) and XDA members are well known for their technical skills, surpassing almost all the fences and barriers...
We have our purchase bill, our configured Google account (user and password) and my wife's fingerprint into the mobile and she never thought that things were so complicated and unflexible...
I thought that maybe somebody from XDA, as the best forum for mobiles in the world I thought it is, would be able to show that in this forum the word "impossible" is not a fact but only an opinion...
Is it really impossible to recover our memories?
Thank you in advance.
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Sorry for not really being helpful, but I have no further suggestions. Then again I'm not an android dev so there's probably still hope ?
I hope you get your data back...

Thank you MDW 100.
Should I put this topic in another section like developers...?

Look for companies in your area doing mobile data recovery. Their service isn't cheap, but your wedding memories are worth it.

I need help accessing locked phone - 8 Pro

I have a OnePlus 8 Pro that i need to get in to. The phone is mine on my T-Mobile account, i bought it for my brother on his birthday.
2 days ago he committed suicide. No note No explanation nothing. He was the strongest person we all knew. Never showed any weakness.
Even his wife cant understand it. I need to be able to get into the phone. There has to be something in there that shed some light on WHY???
His wife, daughter and I NEED answers. I have a ton of experience rooting and modding phones but i don't know how to get past a lock screen without wiping the phone.
If anybody can help me out i would be forever grateful. I would even pay if that's necessary. I am in so much pain right now over this.
Please help

Chipman417 said:
I have a OnePlus 8 Pro that i need to get in to. The phone is mine on my T-Mobile account, i bought it for my brother on his birthday.
2 days ago he committed suicide. No note No explanation nothing. He was the strongest person we all knew. Never showed any weakness.
Even his wife cant understand it. I need to be able to get into the phone. There has to be something in there that shed some light on WHY???
His wife, daughter and I NEED answers. I have a ton of experience rooting and modding phones but i don't know how to get past a lock screen without wiping the phone.
If anybody can help me out i would be forever grateful. I would even pay if that's necessary. I am in so much pain right now over this.
Please help
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Sorry to hear this.
If the phones on Android 11 then theres no twrp so there no way to remove the passcode / pin as far as I'm aware.
Here's a guide explaining how to remove a passcode. However I think with an encrypted phone you won't be able to access files even via twrp.
https://forum-xda--developers-com.c...e-hacking/remove-lockscreen-recovery-t3530008
Data recovery companies may be able to help if it's really needed.
Don't advise them as to what's happened just the phone is yours and your brother was using it, don't tell them how important it is or the price may just go up.

dladz said:
Sorry to hear this.
If the phones on Android 11 then theres no twrp so there no way to remove the passcode / pin as far as I'm aware.
Here's a guide explaining how to remove a passcode. However I think with an encrypted phone you won't be able to access files even via twrp.
https://forum-xda--developers-com.c...e-hacking/remove-lockscreen-recovery-t3530008
Data recovery companies may be able to help if it's really needed.
Don't advise them as to what's happened just the phone is yours and your brother was using it, don't tell them how important it is or the price may just go up.
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Thank you for this info. I will attempt whatever i can.
I will try this and see if it works. I just received a call from the detective and he said they have a device that could do this for us.
I might go that route since there is nothing illegal that he was doing.
was just hoping to do it today as to get it done sooner.
Thank you for the help

Chipman417 said:
Thank you for this info. I will attempt whatever i can.
I will try this and see if it works. I just received a call from the detective and he said they have a device that could do this for us.
I might go that route since there is nothing illegal that he was doing.
was just hoping to do it today as to get it done sooner.
Thank you for the help
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As it's Android it'll be possible. But difficult without the right kit..
I'd clarify what the detective wants to see on the device and can you be present for the unlock.

dladz said:
As it's Android it'll be possible. But difficult without the right kit..
I'd clarify what the detective wants to see on the device and can you be present for the unlock.
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Exactly what i was thinking. I would prefer i am there and they unlock it and hand it straight to me.
I know he wouldn't appreciate anybody not the closest of family getting access and seeing his personal thoughts.

Chipman417 said:
Exactly what i was thinking. I would prefer i am there and they unlock it and hand it straight to me.
I know he wouldn't appreciate anybody not the closest of family getting access and seeing his personal thoughts.
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Tbh I wouldn't want anyone looking through my phone is like a treasure trove..
I'd bare that in mind, not everything is meant to be seen. Doesn't mean anything, it's just how we are.

OP, sorry for your loss. That's all I have to offer. RIP.

Just my condolences to you and family

I'm sorry to hear also. May God bless you and family.

Thank you everyone that offered condolences

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Thank you everyone that offered condolences
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Any luck with it?

As insensitive as this sounds, I am a homicide detective. If he had a fingerprint lock on the phone, you could use his physical fingerprint from his hand prior to burial to unlock the phone. We have used this method several times with success.
Regardless, my condolences to you and yours.

AlphaKoi said:
As insensitive as this sounds, I am a homicide detective. If he had a fingerprint lock on the phone, you could use his physical fingerprint from his hand prior to burial to unlock the phone. We have used this method several times with success.
Regardless, my condolences to you and yours.
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Yeah i was hoping to be able to do just this but since the family members are not very etch savvy, they power cycled the phone off and because of that the first unlock into the system has to be with the numeric password.
I rebuilt his laptop for him a couple months ago so i have the password to get into it. I'm hoping that he saved his email credentials in it. I know that after multiple attempts into android it allows you to change password through the email. This is the last thing i can think to do.
I reached out to OnePlus this morning and the woman who was answering my questions said she had no answers for me. she kept saying i could factory reset it through recovery mode. I already know that, i need the info on it. I'm thinking about reaching out to google also. Who knows they might help since the phone is in my name on my account.

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Any luck with it?
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Not yet. I had an appointment to day with the funeral home to get access to his body so we could use his fingerprint but the phone was turned off since his last login.
It now required the numeric password before logging in. I have one shot left that i can think of. If i can gain access to his email i might be able to reset the password that way.
Fingers crossed. It was so hard yesterday going to the funeral home. We all need answers

Chipman417 said:
Not yet. I had an appointment to day with the funeral home to get access to his body so we could use his fingerprint but the phone was turned off since his last login.
It now required the numeric password before logging in. I have one shot left that i can think of. If i can gain access to his email i might be able to reset the password that way.
Fingers crossed. It was so hard yesterday going to the funeral home. We all need answers
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When your reset his email you'll be able to recieve s text message with a verification number

Google find my device . It can unlock it.

SjDU said:
Google find my device . It can unlock it.
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I saw that. unfortunately i don't have his email credentials for his Find My Device.
Also the sm card was removed my his wife before she gave it back to me unfortunately.
Although it does connect to my Wifi at home... I'm almost to the point of giving up.
I don't think we will ever know why he did what he did.
Thank you to everyone that jumped on this thread. I love this community.

I kinda don't buy the OP story but here is my take:
- Doesn't need a SIM to get/use Find my device working but does require Google account access which is recoverable easily.
- It's trivially easy to recover a Google account with the phone number of the deceased unless the person specifically removed those options and used for instance an authenticator app (of if you don't have the actual SIM or access to that phone number but that would be strange).
- If you cannot recover the account that way, you can still recover it using a legal path by providing the correct inheritance documents to Google (through a lawyer if required) which should pose no issue (again this should pose no issue and while it would take time, it would work).
- Whatsapp cloud backup (on Google drive) is enabled by default and if you're after that, it's probably gonna be trivially easy to restore said backups on any new phone by using the SIM card of the deceased. Unless the person specifically disabled this to prevent this.
You can most likely recover Whatsapp messages without even unlocking the phone. This whole process is actually not hard and requires no tech help and can be done through the legal processes.
Added to all this, I checked your history and saw that you requested help before unlocking a Pixel phone that magically came into your possession before. So it seems you have a pattern of coming into possession of locked phones that makes me very suspicious of your demand.
I'll report this thread and ask a mod to review it.

Sorry. I also have doubts any time I see a story here asking for help unlocking a phone. Always sounds suspicious, and furthermore where are the mods here? Aren't there rules that state no requests for help unlocking phones??
Here is the OPs other post:
" Junior Member11 postsThanks: 2
I have a 64gb Pixel 4 XL that i want to unlock and use on T-Mobile.
The phone was never actually on a Sprint account. It was never technically paid off by a consumer. Its also never been activated on the sprint network to my understanding. (Which are all required to have sprint send an unlock code)
It was given to me by a Sprint store manager when they had to clean out end of year inventory.
I'm trying to figure out if i can unlock it somehow without having to get sprint to send the unlock code.
I don't really want to go through the hassle of explaining to them how i got a hold of it when they look at it in the system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated"

@San Diego The moderators are here and monitoring the thread since it has been created. And these are the XDA Forum Rules to cross-check.
To ask for assistance is not against the rules, and if you read back in the thread quite a few legal possibilities have been given. They obviously didn't delivered the desired result. However, as soon as the discussion or advices deviate towards the obscure side or to paid unlock services this would be removed immediately.
If you check the thread, from which you quoted, you'll see that moderators were acive in it, too.
Stay safe and stay healthy!
Regards
Oswald Boelcke
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