Whatever you do, don't use a pattern to unlock, my friend was messing around trying to guess it, i didn't mind because i know my username and password, however it doesn't even let me attempt it, it just says its invalid the second i enter it.
Now i have to hard reset.
I also found out this has been a problem with android for 2 years !
Megacamz said:
Whatever you do, don't use a pattern to unlock, my friend was messing around trying to guess it, i didn't mind because i know my username and password, however it doesn't even let me attempt it, it just says its invalid the second i enter it.
Now i have to hard reset.
I also found out this has been a problem with android for 2 years !
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After 5 attempts, it just asks you to put in your gmail password.
Paul22000 said:
After 5 attempts, it just asks you to put in your gmail password.
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This i am aware of, But stupid thing is it will always say that its invalid, so i googled it because i thought i was going insane and it turns out the problem is wise spread with no other fix than a hard reset,
Megacamz said:
Whatever you do, don't use a pattern to unlock, my friend was messing around trying to guess it, i didn't mind because i know my username and password, however it doesn't even let me attempt it, it just says its invalid the second i enter it.
Now i have to hard reset.
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When I got my N1 I deliberately checked what happened if you got the unlock wrong, after a few attempts it locks for 30 seconds, after several more it offers to let you login by google username/password instead, but you can still log in with the swipe pattern if you know it. I have let people try to use the swipe pattern when they've said "that's easy I know your pattern" and they've never unlocked it, and never forced me to hard reset either ...
This is and has been a standing problem for all android devices... so far there are a few work arounds for older devices, but I don't know about the N1.
I've had this occur and I had to hard reset as a result.
Here's an issue page: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4784
i was able to fix this on my droid.
pm me for a link, or gmail me (probably quicker)
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Hey Guys,
Last night I was using the phone when the battery gave out. I plugged it in and charged and this morning, went to use it. I put in my 4 digit password but the phone tells ne its incorrect. Its definately the right one but now I'm locked out of my phone.
Anyone have any suggestions other than the obvious reflash? Any ideas how this could have happened?
TIA
mobi said:
Hey Guys,
Last night I was using the phone when the battery gave out. I plugged it in and charged and this morning, went to use it. I put in my 4 digit password but the phone tells ne its incorrect. Its definately the right one but now I'm locked out of my phone.
Anyone have any suggestions other than the obvious reflash? Any ideas how this could have happened?
TIA
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Try the factory password, 1234 or 0000...Tj
Happened to me too 3 times
I had to do a hard reset.. are you using the old or the new ROM?
It happened to me 3 times after that I just use the s2u2 lock, no so secure but it saves me a hard reset.
Very annoying problem.
let us know if you find a solution.
robrob777 said:
I had to do a hard reset.. are you using the old or the new ROM?
It happened to me 3 times after that I just use the s2u2 lock, no so secure but it saves me a hard reset.
Very annoying problem.
let us know if you find a solution.
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I remember being told not to set the password lock on a 6.5.3 build once (that's the "new" beta branch). You think this still holds true?
mobi said:
Hey Guys,
Last night I was using the phone when the battery gave out. I plugged it in and charged and this morning, went to use it. I put in my 4 digit password but the phone tells ne its incorrect. Its definately the right one but now I'm locked out of my phone.
Anyone have any suggestions other than the obvious reflash? Any ideas how this could have happened?
TIA
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I think a hard reset might be in your future. There is not really a way around the password, that the whole point. If you are 100% sure its the right password, then you are probably locked out for good.
make sure to remove the sd card before the auto hard reset. it gets formatted. i learned the hard way.
Thanks all for the pearls of wisdom. I had no choice but to do the hard reset. Its a real pain in the backside. I absolutely love this phone but I dont think it was ready for primetime.
FWIW, I'm running the latest TMOUS Official Rom with very little in the way of tweaks, etc.
It just happened to me for the second time. As I sync with Exchange 2007, I am forced to use a password. This time, I did take out the SD card!
Thank goodness for SPB Backup!
My 14 month old daughter got a hold of my phone and the fingerprint scanner asked me for my backup password. I proceeded to enter my password of 25 years and it told me i was wrong, it then gave me the option to use my gmail account to verify and unlock, i did that got in and replaced fingerprint with password protection. so here i am thinking everything is great, wrong. phone locks and i put in my password that i just changed it to and it tells me im wrong and now it does not give me the option to verify with my gmail account. Ive tried searching how to get into phone, suggestions were Android device manager which only locks phone and when i tried to change the password it said my phone was already locked and that the password would not be used. so the other suggestion was Samsung Find my Mobile but i have never set up a Samsung account. woe is me. Besides a master reset is there anything i can try? Thanks for all the help.
So I am stuck in a bad situation.
I have forgotten my screen pattern and now can't do anything with the phone. I don't want to do a factory reset because I have a lot of important stuff in it. Is there no way that I can externally fix this?
I looked up many sites talk about being able to use your gmail to reset the screen pattern/pin, however there is no such option for me. Even when trying to remember I have to wait 60 seconds for each try and I don't want to guess around.
I would really be happy if someone could help me.
Do you have twrp or unlocked bootloader?
cirnocirno said:
So I am stuck in a bad situation.
I have forgotten my screen pattern and now can't do anything with the phone. I don't want to do a factory reset because I have a lot of important stuff in it. Is there no way that I can externally fix this?
I looked up many sites talk about being able to use your gmail to reset the screen pattern/pin, however there is no such option for me. Even when trying to remember I have to wait 60 seconds for each try and I don't want to guess around.
I would really be happy if someone could help me.
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Go to TWRP, delete the file "locksettings.db" and similarly named files (the ones that start with locksettings) in /data/system
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.
Hi,
So today I changed the pin for my mom's phone and the completely forgot it.
She has a lot of Photos on the phone that she wants to keep, but she has not turned on the backup to google photos option
Is there a way to unlock the phone or recover the photos ?
I have entered the wrong pin multiple times and I still cant see the forgot password option.
Pls help or else mom will kill me.
I hope there is no solution because it would be big security problem.
Your mother maybe using google photos cloud so dont be worry
This poses a security risk for those who lost their phones, so I hope there's no easy way around it.
RIP OP
I also hope there isn't a remedy. I don't mean to sound negative and not help but look at it from our side.
I once had a phone that needed a pin to unlock after being fully booted. Was able to go into recovery without it though.
But on 6t I think the pin encrypts the partition, so no way of bypassing it.
[irony] Maybe tell some intelligence agency that there is terrorist evidence on the phone, see if they have a "special key". [/irony]
elchmartin said:
I once had a phone that needed a pin to unlock after being fully booted. Was able to go into recovery without it though.
But on 6t I think the pin encrypts the partition, so no way of bypassing it.
[irony] Maybe tell some intelligence agency that there is terrorist evidence on the phone, see if they have a "special key". [/irony]
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I agree.
Can you not plug in your USB cable and copy the contents off the phone onto your laptop?
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Can you not plug in your USB cable and copy the contents off the phone onto your laptop?
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Not without unlocking and enabling USB transfer
Just to be sure, it is the pin for the phone and not the simcard right?
superiscch said:
Just to be sure, it is the pin for the phone and not the simcard right?
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Good point
Is it not possible to boot to recovery then factory reset it.........
xobtik said:
Hi,
So today I changed the pin for my mom's phone and the completely forgot it.
She has a lot of Photos on the phone that she wants to keep, but she has not turned on the backup to google photos option
Is there a way to unlock the phone or recover the photos ?
I have entered the wrong pin multiple times and I still cant see the forgot password option.
Pls help or else mom will kill me.
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Get your plot ready then.
You have to format data.
Hopefully you can remember the password or pin.
There is far to many security measures in place
you could by having USB debugging on don't know if it's against rules to tell you or just have them email you don't they still email the password to email reg. on phone
There is simply NO way to access the contents without the encryption key. No app from google that claims it can, not google, not even the NSA or anyone but the key holder can. Trust me, you messed up and there is no other way but to remember what it was or completedly reset the phone. After you reset you will be asked password for the account that was last used there. not worth even trying mate.
I wouldnt normally try to help in a situation regarding security but check out this link: Bypass lock screen PIN all One Plus Devices! Might help!
Good luck and let us know how it turns out :highfive:
That worked for me! Thanks so much!
Scott said:
I wouldnt normally try to help in a situation regarding security but check out this link: Bypass lock screen PIN all One Plus Devices! Might help!
Good luck and let us know how it turns out :highfive:
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+1 this worked for me too
elchmartin said:
[irony] Maybe tell some intelligence agency that there is terrorist evidence on the phone, see if they have a "special key". [/irony]
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Not really for 6T. File Based Encryption that's used by OnePlus doesn't help here either. There may be a way for OnePlus 6 tho since it uses a different key to sign its boot image.
It may be possible to change current password by using Google Find My Device (https://www.google.com/android/find), but i haven't used it for a long time so i'm not sure at this point.