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Hi there,
I have a HTC trinity with the hellboy rom on, Just randomly today it has started restarting in a loop, it won't go into windows, it gets the Unlock button appearing but then goes straight back to the begining , I have no clue as what is wrong but I can't use my phone atm. Its really annoying and I don't want to have to go back to an LG viewty. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?
I don't have a clue what might be happening, but did you try to hard reset the device? You do have a backup, don't you?
Yeah I do
I do have a backup, and have tried a hard reset, However I have managed to get it loaded, All I had to do was leave it restarting, it has taken a couple of hours. Its a really wierd problem, I am gonna keep an eye on it and see if it does it again. I'll keep people abridged of my issue in-case no one has had this 1 before.
Cheers for the reply
-Dave
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Drobilliard said:
I do have a backup, and have tried a hard reset, However I have managed to get it loaded, All I had to do was leave it restarting, it has taken a couple of hours. Its a really wierd problem, I am gonna keep an eye on it and see if it does it again. I'll keep people abridged of my issue in-case no one has had this 1 before.
Cheers for the reply
-Dave
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just so anybody who has the same problem as me, I fixed this by warming the phone up, I believe it was damp/moist inside, I had just been in a steamy location just before I had this problem.
Cheers
1.
This is really weird: some 4 weeks ago it happened that my phone passoword on my first HD2 self-changed , after battery went very low...Initially I though my daughter intercepted my pwd and changed, but this cannot be, since too young (6 y.o.) and she never playd with it...I used a four digit phone password: 1357
A message says: " the password you typed is incorrect" and prompt me to re-enter
I had to hard reset...
2.
some 3-4 days ago, my second HD2 went under the same issue: while battery was low (under 8%) I changed the battery with a fresh one. Then the password -self changed!
I did a hard reset
Details of both my HD2s:
ROM freyberry
lite_WMphone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=606932
(which is really fast and good, by the way)
3.
HD Blackstone
Now few minutes ago, after I installed swype keyboard cab, my third phone (a HD phone, NOT HD2) auto-changed its password!
Same problem
Questions:
1. Am I running crazy or is this a known issue?
2. Is there a Virus which is known to cause such an effect, on WM phones?
Currently I do not use any AV on my Phones. I use kaspersky 9.x on my laptop
Thanks a lot and waiting
Saulo
one more detail: now my HD is NOT accessible anymore...so I am trying to type different pwds: the result is that sometimes the phone is silent (the message "the password you typed is incorrect" does not appear).
Some other times a new message asks to input this sequence: a1b2c3, before I am enabled to re-enter my lost pwd...
Please help...
Saulo
For the first 2 I don't know, did you properly turn the phone off before removing battery, or did you just take it out without a ful shutdown?
About the 3rd one, which Swype version have you used? see this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=639901&highlight=swype
well, in the case of HD (NOT HD2), the issue just happened few minutes ago: battery was 40%. I simply installed swype 3.9. Then the software asked for restart.
I did it (Software restart)
Then the password changed on its own...I am really scared of this phenomena, which I never had during last 8 years of using Windows Mobile phones...all this nightmare started 4 weeks ago.
Thanks and waiting for your feedback
Saulo
saulo866 said:
well, in the case of HD (NOT HD2), the issue just happened few minutes ago: battery was 40%. I simply installed swype 3.9. Then the software asked for restart.
I did it (Software restart)
Then the password changed on its own...I am really scared of this phenomena, which I never had during last 8 years of using Windows Mobile phones...all this nightmare started 4 weeks ago.
Thanks and waiting for your feedback
Saulo
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Did you read the link in the above answer from kilrah? Swype 3.9 causes it.
Yes Samuel.
Is there a cure? I am backing up my Phone and I like Swype 3.9 a lot...
Thanks and waiting
saulo866 said:
Yes Samuel.
Is there a cure? I am backing up my Phone and I like Swype 3.9 a lot...
Thanks and waiting
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Sorry, not read about a cure except not using swype. (I use swype, but i've no idea which version it is,, and i dont use a password so cant say if its teh bad one or not,,, it just says swype.cab.)
saulo866 said:
Yes Samuel.
Is there a cure? I am backing up my Phone and I like Swype 3.9 a lot...
Thanks and waiting
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There is a cure: MTTY your phone and flash a ROM that has Swype 3.9 included. No problem.
Quite a few great ROMs do, including both variants of OzROM. I'm using one myself, and Swype 3.9 works flawlessly on it.
Dear Donald
Thas for your advice1
MTTY: I have read and it looks rather complicated...if I flash with a Stock ROM (like 1.48) and then with a cooked ROM which includes SWYPE will it be the same?
besides: Why do I need MTTY, since except this pwd auto-change issue I am experiencing no other flaws?
Thanks and waiting for your suggestions
Saulo
There are many reports of HD2s suddenly "forget" the password in this Forum but the actual cause(s) is still unknown. Some said it's bcoz of Swype, whereas for me it happened after resetting for a registry tweak but pretty sure that it's a bug/problem related to the WinMo phone lock. Now I've switched to S2U2 lock which works fine so far (still with Swype in my HD2).
Dear Byron
1.
Thanks for your insight: can you expand your feedback on S2U2? I would like to hear from you, before switching from default device LOCK 4 digit password (which would be more than enough for me) to this new utility.
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In my case HD2 DID NOT forget! If so the device would be unlocked. No, the device CHANGED the device lock code! Terrible. I needed to perfomr a hard reset in order to access my phone again, thus I was luck I had done a backup few days ago. I only lost 3 days of new contacts and SMS/emails.
Thank you and waiting
Saulo
To me this is not new. To provide a slightly different perspective, my previous phone to this was the ETEN M700 phone (under WinMo 6.1). That Windows lock-password change occasionally disappears when I either swap batteries or soft-reset the phone.
No surprises to hear that it might happen in HTC HD2, which is why I'm wary of installing a Windows lock password to it.
I've just had it happen to me.
In my case I am using ozrom with swype cooked in.
Interesting I noticed something extra that hasn't been mentioned.
I powered my phone off properly last night and when I switched it on in the morning the first thing that came up was an activesync prompt asking me to enter my new activesync password.
The password on the domain that I sync with hasn't changed. Upon attempting to enter the domain password, the normal phone lock comes up and simply won't accept any passwords - even after the a1b2c3 prompt.
So to me it looks like its not just loosing the phone password but something in the password store is being completely corrupted and only a hard reset and setting everything up again clears it :/
Gah!
It happened again! I was just tweaking the last few settings and the phone wanted a soft reboot. When it came back it wouldn't accept my pin
This time swype was not enabled. Installed, yes. Enabled, no!
I had an O2 XDA (Orbit II I think) before this and never had a single problem with the lock. Then again I never flashed it with a cooked rom...
I resolved by disabling the windows default lock and using S2U2...very good applications, but not really a full locking application.
Thank you
Saulo
I'm using S2U2 at the moment. It hasn't solved the phone losing its passwords (it lost the ActiveSync password when I turned it on this morning).
It does mean that I don't have to hard reset it when it does loose the password though.
I have also noticed that S2U2 doesn't stop the phone from being accidentally turned off by the power button being held down whilst its in my pocket though.
beddo said:
So to me it looks like its not just loosing the phone password but something in the password store is being completely corrupted and only a hard reset and setting everything up again clears it :/
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Has anyone had problems with swype 3.9 if the phone is not locked with a PIN?
I have seen reports with passwords for email accounts being lost, and the pin for locking the phone being changed. But I have not seen anyone having problems if they did not lock the phone...
christos299 said:
I have seen reports with passwords for email accounts being lost, and the pin for locking the phone being changed. But I have not seen anyone having problems if they did not lock the phone...
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It is important to point out that in my case swype was cooked into the rom and installed, but not enabled. I have not actually used swype.
What I have now done is used mtty before reflashing the phone and the phone has now been stable since I did it on Saturday..fingers crossed as I had done everything else before including a hard reset after flashing the phone.
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i do not have swype nor did i ever have it installed. I have only tweaked my phone through the registry and never had a problem. MY phone has run down passed critical multiple times and never had a problem until i did a battery pull today without shutting down the phone. It has been downhill from there
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Has anyone solved this problem yet?
If not, if i reset my phone what will i lose?
Also this seems pretty scary; so how can i lock someone out the phone without locking myself out? I dont want a silly slidelock that doesnt secure my device from unauthorized personnel.
Thanks in advance
the password reset is the same for he TP2/Tilt2's. i had to bootload and reflash to fix the problem
No, this is not a one time thing, and I'm not talking about internet passwords.
My HD2 is literally forgetting my unlock code.
Background: This happens roughly once a month. There's been no consistencies with the problem (different ROMs, even). What happens is, I will turn on my device (or soft reset), and when the lock screen appears, it will repeatedly tell me my password is incorrect. After a while, it will stop telling me my password is incorrect, and simply do nothing when I click the unlock button.
Soft-reset, pulling the battery, removing the SIM, etc, does not help. Every boot after the boot it forgets my password gives me the same results.
My password has been the same all three times this has happened, and the only way around it is a hard reset. I'm trying to find a solution to this, as it is very aggravating to keep losing all my data.
If you have any questions, let me know. And thanks for your help!
it used to happen to me too....so stopped using the password thingy. try pocketshield its an excellent alternative.
i remember reading in several similar posts that (some versions of) swype are known to cause this issue. i believe the safest way to install swype, if you are so inclined, is to install it FIRST, and THEN set up your PIN.
still, if you are not using swype, your issue does sound like the weirdest of the bunch!
ASCIIker said:
i remember reading in several similar posts that (some versions of) swype are known to cause this issue. i believe the safest way to install swype, if you are so inclined, is to install it FIRST, and THEN set up your PIN.
still, if you are not using swype, your issue does sound like the weirdest of the bunch!
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Nope, I don't even have Swype installed...
What's weird is, it's not after installing anything. The phone will literally work for days, and then after a soft reset, locks me out.
Checking out Pocketshield, looks like it might be a better solution.
Update
Found this, but I haven't tried it to see if it's the same problem as mine:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768815
Guess I'll be waiting until my phone breaks again...
u may want to read this as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=610419
So, i just bought from a friend a Moto G4 Plus almost brand new, everything working great.
But this morning i realized my notifications dont show, i cant pull down quick settings, home button and recent screens button are non responsive and i cant see the lock screen anymore; I try to unlock my phone with the fingerprint sensor but it unlocks with any fingerprint or even just by pressing the on button.
With all these problems, I went online to search for possible explanations for all of this. I tried to factory reset it but the button is a little faint and it wont let me. I tried to hard reset it but it also wont let me do that. I uninstalled all the apps i had to see if any app had done this but everything still wouldnt work. Also tried deleting all other information but still, home button and all other things dont work and still cant factory reset.
Also tried factory resetting it with two different programs conectting it to my computer but neither program recognized my phone even though its battery was over 80%.
I am getting really frustrated. I mean, everything else works fine, but all these things should work and everything and its really frustrating trying to use the phone having to go back on everything to go to the home page.
Anybody have any suggestions or have had the same problem? Tomorrow im gonna take it to a guy i know who fixes phones but would really love to know if i can solve it myself.
Thanks in advance
Search here how to flash the stock from for your model. It should fix it unless its a hardware issue.
fix-this! said:
Search here how to flash the stock from for your model. It should fix it unless its a hardware issue.
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Just did, and int fixed everything, home buttons working, quick settings are coming down and all the other things.
But, now my network connections are unavailable. My mac address is 02:00:00:00:00:00, my ip address shows as unavailable and my phone also wont read my sim.
I already flashed it again and also tried restoring it to factory setting because now it lets me do it but nothing changes. I cant connect to anything on Wi-Fi, it just stays on the screen of Wi-Fi turning on
I had same issue when memory bocame full! I did hard reset.
Hi, recently I have had an issue with unlocking my S8+. While home,(Google's Trusted Places) it used to always stay unlocked for me. Recently, for some unknown reason, it stopped. I have factory reset my phone many times now, over the past few weeks and I am stumped. While home, I used to be able to just swipe my phone screen and it would just unlock. For some reason, now (while home) if I swipe, it asks for my fingerprint or PIN. On a side note, I could be outside my home, like at work or somewhere else, and I swipe my screen and it just opens up (occasionally). I have taken my phone it to a local repair shop and had them re-image my firmware (so they said). When I first started up the phone from the wipe, I would set it up to allow unlocking with fingerprint, but it wanted a PIN to go along with it. I don't remember this when I first got my phone 5 months ago. I'm sure it is either a bug, or a setting I am over looking. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Things I have done:
Factory reset phone (4x's)
Deleted My Google Trusted Place and re-added my information.
Anyone have any idea?
The same thing happens to me lately, also. I tried deleting and re-adding my home as a Safe Place, and it worked a couple of times, then stopped again.
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The same thing happens to me lately, also. I tried deleting and re-adding my home as a Safe Place, and it worked a couple of times, then stopped again.
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I think I figured it out. Open Google, go to Settings > Google Assistant > settings > personal info. Make sure your Home address is in three. Mine deleted for some reason. It kept deleting a few times after I added it again. But it's been working pretty good now for the past few days.
Hope this helps!
@thelmpalakid How did you make out?