Solved (how can I add that to the title?)
Verizon Galaxy S5, rooted and running 4.4.4
I had a weird and unsettling incident today. I had my phone set up for pattern unlock. I pulled my phone from my pocket and it was on a pin unlock screen. I was unable to get it to go back to pattern unlock, even with pulling the battery. As so often happens when I'm ambushed with a password requirement (the old pattern unlock didn't require a pin), I couldn't remember it. I'm sure I'll remember it eventually but I needed to have navigation right then so I had to do the reset, lost some stuff, nothing too important (old factory reset didn't used to wipe the SD so I lost some stuff there too). Mostly annoying but neither here nor there really. I always assume that anything on my phone is volatile.
So that was that. I assumed my phone had pocket-swiped and got caught in a pin fallback. Except I'm playing with my phone now and I'm unable to duplicate the effect. I have a pattern set and a pin behind it but playing with it and getting the pattern wrong doesn't lock me into having to enter the pin. If I get the pattern wrong several times, I get prompted with forgot pattern (which prompts me for my google account info) or backup pin (which prompts me for my pin but allows me to hit the back arrow to go back to the pattern).
If it helps, I did not have encryption on this device. It was not new when I got it so I had performed a factory reset so it should have been in exactly the same state. Can anyone help me understand how I got locked into this "having to enter a pin" state?
[Edit: I just tried enabling the pin lock screen and it is different from the screen that I saw which was more like the "backup pin" screen]
As an additional question, I see there is an option to disable the auto factory reset. If you disable it, what are your options for if you forget your passwords? How would you reset the device?
Edit2: OK, the clue was in there. If the auto factory reset is disabled, you are able to go back and forth between the pattern unlock and the pin unlock. If the auto factory reset is enabled, you jump to the pin unlock and then you get 10 chances at the pin and there is apparently no way to get back to the pattern unlock. I'll reserve comment on whether having the auto factory reset enabled as the default is a good idea or not.
Just as an additional note, I just checked and it is not possible to unlock the device from the android device manager when it has a pattern lock or pin lock screen set
This just happened to me after the tenth try and fail it wiped the whole internal and external cards and went in to boot loop I had to reflash the rom best thing to do is turn off the phone boot to safestrap and restore a back if you go through with the 10 tries at least pull your memory card before the 10th try
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It looks like a good answer I found was that if you load up the play store on a browser on a PC, there is an app you can install that will unlock your device. Pretty smart (though not cheap [edit: actually pretty cheap, just not free]). I did need the nav but if I had known of this app, I probably would just have asked directions. I definitely should have pulled the sd card anyway.
Here is the link to the app. There is also a free version which does less. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thomascannon.screenlockbypass.pro
Other useful info available here
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/ho...u-bypass-android-pattern-lock-screen-0138807/
Hello guys. During setup my 6p asked me about having the pin checked before booting android itself. Am I correct in assuming having this on will stifle android device manager's ability to locate lock or wipe the phone in the event it is lost or stolen seeing how the rom never boots until the pin is entered. Seems super safe but at the expense of losing any chance of recovering it should it be stolen and still connected to data or lost by me.
RngrYogi said:
Hello guys. During setup my 6p asked me about having the pin checked before booting android itself. Am I correct in assuming having this on will stifle android device manager's ability to locate lock or wipe the phone in the event it is lost or stolen seeing how the rom never boots until the pin is entered. Seems super safe but at the expense of losing any chance of recovering it should it be stolen and still connected to data or lost by me.
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I don't know about remote finding and lock but I can tell you I had it for a little while and then when I loaded the last pass app it said I had to disable it for that to work so I did because I love LastPass
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Yes, if you have the option for requiring PIN to boot enabled, the device will never fully boot into Android and you would not be able to track it. The upside is that the thief would not be able to use the phone until that PIN is entered.
Hello, I'm stuck with my s7 edge screen lock, I've always used my fingerprint scanner but when configured enterprise email account into the cellphone it asked me to set a PIN (weeks ago) and since then I just used fingerprint to unlock it, however yesterday my batery ran out and its asking for this PIN now. I don't have the samsung account to unlock it and ADM from google wont set a temporary password as "there is one already in place"
1. My phone is not rooted
2. I don't have any recovery tool installed
Is there any zip or bypass up to date that I could flash via SD card to remove the lock screen, please help
Short answer - no. You'd need to factory reset the device or enter the pin.
If security was that easy to bypass, it wouldn't really be security.
NJ72 said:
Short answer - no. You'd need to factory reset the device or enter the pin.
If security was that easy to bypass, it wouldn't really be security.
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There are tons of tutorials of screen unlocking and even apps that you just plug into the USB and click "screen unlock bypass" thing is I did not find any for S7 Edge, that is my question, no need to reply with such unexplored answer.
jackzinh said:
There are tons of tutorials of screen unlocking and even apps that you just plug into the USB and click "screen unlock bypass" thing is I did not find any for S7 Edge, that is my question, no need to reply with such unexplored answer.
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#1 - There may well be lots of apps which claim to do this. If it was actually that simple, why would you have a screen lock in the first place? These are snake-oil type apps
#2 - Any apps you may have found that do work probably (almost certainly) don't work beyond Android 4.4 as security became a much larger focus for the OS as a whole
#3 - just because I haven't cited sources doesn't mean that I haven't conducted previous research. I had an issue where my Google Pixel C would not authenticate with the pattern key. I could not bypass it and had to extract all the data I could using AirDroid before factory resetting the device
It wasn't an 'unexplored' answer, it was merely telling it to you straight rather than trying to sugar coat it. Remind me not to answer your question next time. :good:
It doesn't mean that it's not the answer you seek, it's not the truth. There's a reason why people are told to remember passwords, and if their memories suck, they should write it down somewhere.
Newer phones are more securely locked than older phones now precisely for the reasons that Android is being made more secure due to demands for use in corporate and government settings. as far as I know none of those hacks works for anything higher than Android 6.0, and the S7 launches with that Android version.
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I'm in the same boat, took out my S7 after a couple of months, and do not remember the password anymore. The only saving grace is, it still connects to my home wifi network. I'm able to use Android Device managr to locate it, make it ring, send a lock meesage to it. I've logged into my samsung account, it lists the S7 edge as one of my devices but, it is unable to locate the phone. I may not have setup Samsung findmyphone on the device after I reset it t factory default in the past, which is why it is unable to locate it.
The phone is turned on, and connected to my home WiFi - but, is obviosuly not being located by Samsung Fund My Phone. There is NO option to reset, recover password, it have bumped upto 60 minutes wait to try again as I;ve entered the password unsuccessfully multiple times.
All the guides I've read on the net are completely useless, they all either require rooting, which I dont have as I had corporate email setup on it and the IT policy woulndt allow rooted phones ot be used, or they default to hard resetting the device. Some suggest after multiple failed attemps, the option to reset password should show up on the lock screen, but, all I get it, please try again in 60 minutes.
The phone is legitimitely mine, Android Device Manager finds it under my gmail account, but, Samsung doesnt seem to talk to it - is there any option avaialble?. I really don't want to reset the phone. I've emailed Samsung support as well, but sentiment on the net is, they're no apple when it comes to support.
Android normally secures your device by demanding a PIN, pattern, or full password. Your phone isn't useless if you forget the unlock code — you can bypass lock screen on Samsung S7 Edge.
As Google tightens security, this has become more difficult on modern versions of Android. But there's always a way to make your phone usable again, as long as you remember your Google account's username and its password.
Older versions of Android — Android 4.4 KitKat and older — have an integrated way to bypass your pattern, PIN, or other password if you forget it. Google removed this feature in Android 5.0 Lollipop, so you'll have to use a different method if you have a device with a newer version of Android.
To find this feature, first enter an incorrect pattern or PIN five times at the lock screen. You'll see a "Forgot pattern," "forgot PIN," or "forgot password" button appear. Tap it. You'll be prompted to enter the username and password of the Google account associated with your Android device.
Thanks Adeliz, however...
RizSher said:
All the guides I've read on the net are completely useless, they all either require rooting, which I dont have as I had corporate email setup on it and the IT policy woulndt allow rooted phones ot be used, or they default to hard resetting the device. Some suggest after multiple failed attemps, the option to reset password should show up on the lock screen, but, all I get it, please try again in 60 minutes.
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Running stock - I recently wiped and managed to forget my password. As you all know biometrics won't work upon a fresh reboot. Well, I tried all I could remember and had no success. I found a link to samsung accounts which will remote unlock. Great!
Except now when I boot the phone it's a black backdrop "Please input pw to 'turn on' device'" and can see it's automatically set into airplane mode. I can't access the notification bar, I can't send the unlock command......what can I do?
Do I have to seriously wipe again?
don't bother replying as the phone wiped itself. Piece of **** phone software is a hunk of garbage. One single restart locked the whole phone out from ALL connectivity. No wifi, no cell, no anything.
What is the god damn point of remote software to unlock, track, locate devices if ONE ****ING restart locks out the entire software suite? Knox is trash.
My girlfriends S7 Edge was stolen in France and unbelievably she was contacted through the Embassy that it had been found!!! I couldn't believe it especially because the police was more than rude and didn't care at all at first.
Anyway, after an ordeal to get it back by mail without speaking french ourselves it is now here without the case. Plugging it in it came up in download mode. Rebooting brought the lockscreen back, but her pattern doesn't work and it's in French. However, there were still messages on the lockscreen, so I believe it may not have been wiped. But no idea why it is in french now and why the lock pattern doesn't work.
Apparently one can set a temporary password through device manager, but problem 1 both wifi as well as mobile data are disabled - I can't get to it through device manager. Problem 2 I can pull down quick settings, but cannot activate either wifi nor data. Problem 3 I thought you can always get to the backup PIN entering a few wrong pattern, but that doesn't work either - only the delays increase.
There is no recovery installed or root. I may have enabled debug mode and read I could delete pattern.key via adb, however am not there right now.
Any other ideas? I wonder who changed the phone to french and download mode. Could be the police (because they found GF and there was no name on the phone) or the thief. The SIM was missing, if the thief threw away the SIM the police must have accessed the phone.
Any other ideas? I absolutely don't want to go wipe just yet, but without the phone connecting to either wifi or data there is no hope through google. We can call it with the replacement SIM.
Any way to get out of the pattern and to enter the PIN? Doesn't a PIN always have to be set when a pattern is set?
Would adb deleting of the pattern file actually work?
Google how to bypass passwords you'll find help in d results
Yeah, I did - had to do this recently restoring a TWRP backup when my pattern suddenly didn't work any more - even though I used the same pattern on the older version and thought I deleted everything. It must have stored this stuff outside the data, system or boot partitions.... weird.
Anyway unfortunately it looks like the thief got access and deleted everything, that's why it's in french. So the only way for the police to identify the owner must have been the IMEI - there is nothing left but creepy selfies of the thief - tons of them.
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