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HELP Please cannot unlock........

Have installed swype, recommended soft reset which i did. Phone will now not unlock, put in my four numbers on lock screen and it says invalid password. Tried another soft reset now if you put in the four numbers and press unlock nothing happens. It came up with a message saying i had input wrong password too many times and gave me a code to put in. a1b2c3 done this goas back to lock screen but still not taking my password. Any help please

"You need to disable your password before installing swype 3.9. Then after its installed and you soft reset then add your password again. It happens because swype 3.9 is from the TMOUS and needs to change the ID of your phone to T-Mobile_LEO. This is what causes the issue."
from this thread htchd2forum
Was it swype 3.9 you installed??
Might mean a hard reset.......
Sorry.....

conantroutman said:
"You need to disable your password before installing swype 3.9. Then after its installed and you soft reset then add your password again. It happens because swype 3.9 is from the TMOUS and needs to change the ID of your phone to T-Mobile_LEO. This is what causes the issue."
from this thread htchd2forum
Was it swype 3.9 you installed??
Might mean a hard reset.......
Sorry.....
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Yes was 3.9, no other way but hard reset?

That was the most relevant info I could find......
I really cant see anyway round it (although I could be wrong).....
"swype 3.9 is from the TMOUS and needs to change the ID of your phone to T-Mobile_LEO."
Im assuming you cannot establish an activesync connection until the password screen is passed??
I know that might be a stupid question but I've never used a password on any phone I've ever owned....
If it was possiible to connect to a computer you might be able to change the setting which was altered by the installation of swype......
However I doubt thats a possibilty because if you were able to do that It would be pointless having the password enabled in the first place......
Dont hard reset just yet... wait it out... somebody on here might be able to provide you with a fix.....
Hope it works out for you.........

conantroutman said:
That was the most relevant info I could find......
I really cant see anyway round it (although I could be wrong).....
"swype 3.9 is from the TMOUS and needs to change the ID of your phone to T-Mobile_LEO."
Im assuming you cannot establish an activesync connection until the password screen is passed??
I know that might be a stupid question but I've never used a password on any phone I've ever owned....
If it was possiible to connect to a computer you might be able to change the setting which was altered by the installation of swype......
However I doubt thats a possibilty because if you were able to do that It would be pointless having the password enabled in the first place......
Dont hard reset just yet... wait it out... somebody on here might be able to provide you with a fix.....
Hope it works out for you.........
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Thanks for help, will use a spare phone tomorrow hope for a way round it without reset. Tried connecting to computer, askes me to unlock the phone!

Forgot unlock passsword - how to get rid of it?

SOLVED.
Greets.
A mate of mine forgot his unlock password the other day. At first I thought it was gonna be the same as with Galaxy S - just flash it or better yet do a wipe/factory reset in recovery and be rid of it - boy was I wrong... I tried everything I could come up with - flashing costum SW, different kernels from xda, older/newer original SW, CMW resets etc. - no luck at all.
So now I turn to you beloved XDA and ur techies - does anyone have any idea how we could reset our SGS2's so that this passwords would be gone aswell?
Solution:
Just spam random passwords (think it was 5 wrong) and then a message appears, that the SD card will be reset and a full wipe will be done - press OK and bang the phone boots normally.
In case anyone finds themselves in the same situation. You lose all your data ofcourse but the password is deleted and bang the phone works.

What password are you talking about, because a factory reset in recovery mode should do it.

I am talking about the screen lock with a password. Like I said nothing works... everytime I turn the phone on I get the "Confirm Password" screen thrown in my face

A ROM flash should definitely get rid of that, but I'm very surprised that a factory reset doesn't do it.

Like I said I tried flashing original roms (older and newer of KE2), costum roms (villian, litenin etc.), different kernels - the password is still here.

I'm stumped then mate. I've never had a lockscreen password persist from one ROM to another. I think household insurance and a brick may be the easiest way to remove it

Hehe ye I was not exactly exstatic about it either... I've been playing with roms etc. since my 1st android Samsung Galaxy (GT-I7500) and the one thing that was always persistant was "Software saves" - and now this with the SGS2...
I just tried the same on mine - set the password and flashed the official KF3 - got welcomed with the "Confirm Password" screen and just input my password that I set before and bang the phone finished with the software update and booted normally...
Thinking this thread would be better off in the development section in case anyone will have the time to look into where this stuff is stored and make a workaround (perhaps similar like the nv_data one for network unlock).

This is purely a guess and I haven't tried it on SGS2, but you could try flashing a ROM via Odin and ticking the option "Phone EFS clear". Not sure but this could wipe also the EMMC partition where I have heard the screen lock data is stored in. I won't take any responsibility on bricked phones or other problems though...
I only did try this on my wife's SGS and for it it did not do any harm.

Nightravenn said:
Thinking this thread would be better off in the development section in case anyone will have the time to look into where this stuff is stored and make a workaround (perhaps similar like the nv_data one for network unlock).
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Tut tut matey. It's a question - it's already in the wrong forum

Heh my bad about the placement of the topic
@Pume EFS is actually where the calibration is stored aswell (which is different for every phone/IMEI/RF), but yes I did try it aswell heh, also tried the bootloader update option ticked on - same story still the damn PSD (Password screen of death?).

First you can try to disable the password via adb (in recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110307
If its not the right description you could try to format the data partition in recovery and then flash a new rom. No idea how smart that is on the galaxy s II but on the desire it was perfectly save. Last i believe this is a more common problem and there should be other threads around with solutions.
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Nightravenn said:
Heh my bad about the placement of the topic
@Pume EFS is actually where the calibration is stored (which is different for every phone/IMEI/RF), altho yes I did try it aswell heh, also tried the bootloader update option ticked on - same story still the damn PSD (Password screen of death?).
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Oh, good to know anyway. Damn I'm never gonna put a password on mine as I tend to forget even my own birthday

You could try that again(flash a rom) without your SIM card and maybe without your MicroSD. Maybe it syncs with data and get the password lock from there.

Are you sure the password isn't a PUK lock? Try booting the phone without a sim. If it works, then the password is restricting your use of the service by locking you out of the phone. To solve this you can do one of two things:
1. Get the Sim replaced
2. Call your provider for an unlock code and GET RID OF IT in the security settings under sim-lock
Hope that helped!

Actually I always flash roms without the SD card and SIM as I've come to realise some .pit's acutally repartition your SD card aswell thus erasing it - cheers for the post tho.
@TheGhost1233
You might be on to something with that actually but now I have another problem... for some reason everytime I want to go to recovery it shows that little yellow box (the usual one before going into recovery) and then back to the dumbass PSD. So I can't get ADB working now at all.

I almost don't want to post this hehe...
But ye found a solution - spammed random passwords (think it was 5 wrong) and then a message appeared, that the SD card will be reset and a full wipe will be done - pressed OK and bang the phone boots normally
In case anyone finds themselves in the same situation. You lose all your data ofcourse but the password is deleted and bang the phone works

I think this is anti-theft protection, at least your info is gonna be deleted if someone steals it

Activesync locked my phone... Please help.

Hi All,
I mistakenly entered my password and Activesync locked my phone.
I was running the Litening rom which allowed me to load Clockmod and copy my data off. I then re-flashed it with the Litening ROM again but after initial configuration the screen lock comes on and asks for a password.
I re-flashed again and tried to change the screen lock but it asks for the password to change.
Finally I thought it was something wrong with the Litening ROM so I installed the Check5Rom performed initial configuration and the screen lock is still there!?
Has anyone else had the same issue with Activesync locking the device?
I own my phone and was using Exchange at the company I am consulting at, mistakenly I didn't use Touchdown otherwise I could have avoided this.
Is there anyway to fix this without having to the Exchange admit and get him to type in the unlock password?
Any help would be awesome

I thought activesync was windows mobile only, times move on... not sure this would lock your phone now, try clearing all ROM data, partition and dalvic and reinstall ROM. alternatively if you have a backup on clock that should solve it. Unless you are talking about a password in windows or something, i'm confused to be honest.

I created an Exchange account under "Accounts and Sync" which allowed me to connect to the company's Exchange/OWA Server.
Unfortunately I didn't read the fine print and when I messed the password up it locked my phone ;(

full reflash then

ask your exchange sync admin to remove the lock?

Thanks guys for helping. I had to put the original Samsung Galaxy S2 rom back on and remove the custom roms totally.
I followed this blog post that showed how to put I9100XXKH3 back on my phone.
This got me back to 2.3.4. When I rebooted it still asked me for a password, I failed it on purpose 3 times and it wiped my phone. When it rebooted after the wipe I was back to a new rom and I could reset the screen lock.
Not sure if it is an issue specific to Litening rom? But from now on I am using Touchdown rather than native active sync on my phone.
Thanks again everyone!

[Q] *Can't get past initial set-up page*

Peace ALL,
Hopefully someone can please help me!! I recently purchased a used OP2 off of Amazon. Phone received was in good shape and looked brand new. The problem I have however is that I can't bypass the initial set-up (I think it has something to do with Google factory Reset Protection).
Whenever the phone is in the initial setup process its asking for a gmail that was synced to the device before it was wiped--which of course I dont have access to. Is there any workaround for this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

i had the same problem as i got it second hand.The thing with me was that i knew the owner.
The problem is that the previous owner wiped the device from the boot menu ( the one that looks like twrp) and not from the in menu setting.
this is why it asks for a previous mail.
I asked for his mail and password ,logged in, went to settings did a factory reset form the menu and all ok.I dont know what you could do without his mail and password.
Maybe unlock it put twrp custom rom open it and then reset it to factory settings?

Does anybody know if unlocking bootloader and flashing the stock ROM will bypass Google Device Protection (not sure if this will work as i think the OP2 is already "unlocked")?
Someone please help

I am having the same issue. I've read how you have to wait 72 hours but I am not sure if it will work.

phone crashed - Fingerprint deleted - 120 Minutes lock after wrong

Hi,
yesterday evening my redmi 3s (http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_487801.html) crashed while I used facebook App.
it restarted
i gave in sim-Pin
but normally i use fingerprnt to unlock the phone - this does not work any longer - I tried to unlock the phone with my formerly used pattern but it does not work. perhaps i don't remember. perhaps it is erased, too?
now i can try a pattern each 120 Minutes - then phone is locked if pattern is wrong.
Do you have any ideas how to fix this? this is really important because i do not want to make new rom to the phone.
thank you in andvance

qwerqw said:
Hi,
yesterday evening my redmi 3s (http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_487801.html) crashed while I used facebook App.
it restarted
i gave in sim-Pin
but normally i use fingerprnt to unlock the phone - this does not work any longer - I tried to unlock the phone with my formerly used pattern but it does not work. perhaps i don't remember. perhaps it is erased, too?
now i can try a pattern each 120 Minutes - then phone is locked if pattern is wrong.
Do you have any ideas how to fix this? this is really important because i do not want to make new rom to the phone.
thank you in andvance
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Always you Turn ON or reboot the phone, you must (Yes or Yes) get Unlocked with the Pattern or Pin, the Fingerprint do not work until the phone is unlocked at leat one time.
If you do not remember the Pattern or Pin, you sould to do a factory reset from recovery or flash MIUI rom via fastboot.

kukuteku said:
Always you Turn ON or reboot the phone, you must (Yes or Yes) get Unlocked with the Pattern or Pin, the Fingerprint do not work until the phone is unlocked at leat one time.
If you do not remember the Pattern or Pin, you sould to do a factory reset from recovery or flash MIUI rom via fastboot.
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that's what i did not want to hear
thank you

i remember a thread on xda about bypassing lockscreen but i can't find it anymore. i think it was on hacking forum. maybe google will help you

merlin.berlin said:
i remember a thread on xda about bypassing lockscreen but i can't find it anymore. i think it was on hacking forum. maybe google will help you
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ok - thank you.
might work:
https://www.google.de/search?q=bypa...en&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8