Hi all, I have rooted my Galaxy S Continuum and am looking for a way to remove the annoying password lock that sets every time my screen times out. I had a droid before, and was able to set the lockout time for an hour or more. Im sure its not my admin's issue but an issue with the Galaxy S software. Any Ideas on how to make the bad password go away?
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Ramsey
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Got locked out of my phone today after too many incorrect attempts from unlocking patterns from the lock screen. It took me to the sign in with your gmail account screen which would not authenticate unfortunately, kept telling me my password or email was invalid. Searched quite a few places via Google about the issue and tried just about every trick I could find all of which didn't work. I ended up having to wipe my phone and start from scratch unfortunately I heard this was a glitch with HTC phones, the weird part is I tried to replicate the problem once I got the phone back up and running and my email authentication worked. Had anyone else had this issue with better resolve?
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Hi I'm new to the forum so hello everyone. OK so recently I bought a slightly used At&t Samsung galaxy s5 from craigslist. Phone works great I unlocked the phone via Imei #. The only thing that I Have a problem is reactivation lock. The phone has it on. I contacted the seller asked if he could give me the password for the Samsung account had no problem with that but when I typed in the password it got me back to the system setting and the check mark was still on. I tried doing it several times but without a success. I tried going to find my phone website but I didn't find an answer eather. I'm kind of stuck at this step because I don't want to bother him every time I do factory reset or something. Did anyone had this problem before or any suggestions on what I should do????
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amojzel said:
Hi I'm new to the forum so hello everyone. OK so recently I bought a slightly used At&t Samsung galaxy s5 from craigslist. Phone works great I unlocked the phone via Imei #. The only thing that I Have a problem is reactivation lock. The phone has it on. I contacted the seller asked if he could give me the password for the Samsung account had no problem with that but when I typed in the password it got me back to the system setting and the check mark was still on. I tried doing it several times but without a success. I tried going to find my phone website but I didn't find an answer eather. I'm kind of stuck at this step because I don't want to bother him every time I do factory reset or something. Did anyone had this problem before or any suggestions on what I should do????
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You heed to use paragraphs. Your post was too hard to read.
The purpose of reactivation lock is to keep stolen handsets being activated by someone else. You need the previous owner to provide a working password. Or have the original owner talk to support and have the password reset.
Otherwise you effectively have a mp3 player /wifi browser, instead of an unrestricted smartphone.
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Ok so i do have the correct password for the samsung account and i know that because when i enter incorrect password it shows that the password is incorect.
When i enter the correct password it gets me to the point of me looking at the reactivation lock button with the check mark on. No matter how many times i enter the password correctly the check mark is still on.
Btw. The phone works fine its unlocked i make calls from it and everthing.
Anyone had a problem like that?? Any help
Did you try clicking on the check mark to toggle it off?
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Did you try clicking on the check mark to toggle it off?
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Yes i did. Severeal times entered the password and checkmark is still on. Its like it got stuck and wont unstuck
Try to restart the phone and then try to deactivate the activation lock again. Happened to me before and after restart, I can successfully deactivate the lock
Is the reactivation lock a problem with non-TW firmwares? Or can you rip out the Samsung-specific junk that ties the phone to their activation process in a TW rom?
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Is the reactivation lock a problem with non-TW firmwares?
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It is not a Samsung specific feature, although Google and Microsoft plan to implement similar anti theft features. Although with all things not IOS, a particular carrier can veto having the feature on their network.
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have u try remove previous samsung account in the account setting?
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It is not a Samsung specific feature. It's an Android anti theft feature. Although with all things not IOS, a particular carrier can veto having the feature on their network.
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ok thanks. I thought it was tied to the Samsung account because you need the Samsung account password to disable the reactivation lock.
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My apologies, I mispoke earlier. Reactivation lock is Samsung specific. I had meant to say that it was not carrier specific.
However Google and Microsoft plan to introduce similar anti theft kill switches in the near future. Minnesota passed a law in May requiring phones sold there to have a kill switch and similar legislation is pending in California and New York.
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Thankfully I have made recently a backup of the phone... So I really don't care if I need to wipe it out...
Hello XDA Forums! The most strange thing has happened to me yesterday! I have a Nexus 4 with Android 5.0.1, and was doing some Skype + Hangouts (battery was around 14%)... I put it in my lap, put it in the baggage (I was on a trip to the beach), and when I try to unlock the phone... BAM!
I get myself a PIN lockscreen.... I don't know how the heck did it happen. I don't even have one for starters. I know 100% sure that nobody touched that phone, because it was with me ALL THE TIME (from the last time I used it, to the time I got the message. It was around 35 mins).
And you know what's strange...? I can't even make emergency calls. I don't know if this is a bug... But it has kind of scared me because I'm away from home and good Internet connection. Thankfully I have my laptop with me and Lollipop has the hotspot toggle which it isn't PIN-enforced.
Has this happened to anyone?
Is there a way to unlock the device?
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Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
The same thing has been happening to me since my last update. I've just been ignoring it, but I'm on the same page as you. I refuse to get a Samsung account. Google already knows everything there is to know about me. I doubt there is anything to prevent that pop-up from appearing for now, but at least it's not any more intrusive than it already is.
Ardrid said:
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
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I have Samsung account, so I don't have any annoying popup regarding that, but I have used my phone without signing in to the account for at least a week and haven't seen any popups either. I am using US Unlocked S8
Ardrid said:
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
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I was starting to think I was the only one. Google is no help, who's surprised. I used the 'contact samsung' field in the popup a few dozen times. First few times they told me to disable the app in settings, so I knew they wouldn't be any help. After a lot more emails they said to bring the phone to a samsung service center. There isn't one within 100 miles, and I'm not going to send it to one, so, another dead end. When 99.9 percent of sheeple are dying to sign up, samsung isn't going to accommodate the few who still remember privacy and free will. If I didn't require a smartphone for work I would use this thing for skeet practice. The 30 year old phone that is screwed to my kitchen wall still works fine.
Here's how
This is how I fixed it. Go to Settings/ Accounts/ accounts (again)/ Samsung Account/ About/ App Info/ Notifications/ uncheck. You're welcome
Many thanks for your solution friend.
It's back and can't be disabled in Oreo
I'll second that, updated to Oreo this morning, Samsung account nag is back and haven't found a solution to disable it yet.
Hello all,
I have a unique issue where the most recent Android update caused my password to be truncated from 20 digits to 16 - now it won’t let me login to the phone when the phone starts up. I have 6 attempts left for a factory rest, whereby I lose all my data!
Samsung can’t help because I wasn’t logged into the Google Play Store, and this was a new phone and I haven’t backed up in about 2 weeks. I would like my data back, but that isn’t an option per Samsung, where I heard about this group.
Is there anyway to get my data back? And bypass this update to roll back without being able to login?
Dr. Fone won’t work because I didn’t have the USB Debugging option turned on. I can get into the boot menu, but have little recourse after that. This is a Hail Mary for anyone that might’ve experienced this or has thoughts on how to get my phone back on. Thanks in advance for reading!
And why would Google do this?! At least a big warning would’ve been helpful!
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