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just bought a galaxy s and it has a tomany attempts on Need help

i just bought a galaxy s and it has tha pattern unlock bs and i been trying these lil trick on the web and nothing is there away for me to clear the security on the phone ? in order to get it working ..? so ireally need this phone to work s if you can be of any assistance post if not please keep rude comments to your self thank you !

ghostv7142 said:
i just bought a galaxy s and it has tha pattern unlock bs and i been trying these lil trick on the web and nothing is there away for me to clear the security on the phone ? in order to get it working ..? so ireally need this phone to work s if you can be of any assistance post if not please keep rude comments to your self thank you !
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turn the phone off, when off, hold volume-up, home button and power button...a menu should pop up, navigate using volume buttons to factory reset and select using the home button (I think)
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i have tried that but ill try again thanks for the reply has this been proven to work !?

ghostv7142 said:
i have tried that but ill try again thanks for the reply has this been proven to work !?
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not sure. but it should as it is basically resetting the phone...
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Why don't you call your seller and ask for the code...
Looks like "hot" SGS to me :|

You would be lucky if he enabled "USB Debugging" on his phone. Flash the phone and your phone would be brand new. This is theoretical though. Never faced any problems like this.
Doesn't seem like you bought the phone eh mate? If he has Tracker Apps, you would be screwed my friend.

Just do the factory reset, it will work.
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Go back to the seller
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Options has been given, I hope you can solve your problem. I don´t wan´t this to derailed some I'm going to close it.

Broken volume up button?

So the other day my phone turned off and my phone started doing the 3 vibrates and blinking orange LED thing. It finally turned on earlier today, so I was wondering if there was a way to fix the volume up button so I don't have to worry about my phone getting turned off.
Is there a way to fix it? Or remap the button to a different button? Or even just disable the button in general? Or even just plain break the button. Anything as long as the phone doesn't think its being pressed lol
Edit: does anyone know if the app buttonmapper would fix this? I don't wanna try this and have it not work and get stuck with the flashing LED again
Thanks!

Button savior might but please don't make 2 threads back to back...
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Nicgraner said:
Button savior might but please don't make 2 threads back to back...
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That would just replace the volume button. I need it gone completely. And alright, I'll remember that from now on. Sorry

theholyfork said:
That would just replace the volume button. I need it gone completely. And alright, I'll remember that from now on. Sorry
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No problem, you could try using a jewlers screwdriver set and prying up the volume up key. And its a rookie mistake just don't do it again
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Nicgraner said:
No problem, you could try using a jewlers screwdriver set and prying up the volume up key. And its a rookie mistake just don't do it again
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Haha I did that, and it wasn't working before, but I just tried to boot into recovery via the option on CM7 menu, and it booted into CWM just fine. Then I hit reboot system now, and it did that just fine. Does it boot differently when I have it boot directly into recovery? And does it boot differently when I hit reboot system now through CWM?
I know it changes the bootmode (or at least it does on the Kindle Fire), but I didn't think it made that much of a difference. Oh well. I guess I won't question it too much as long as it works.

So, when I turn the phone on using Volume Up+Power, that boots me into hboot, right?
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theholyfork said:
So, when I turn the phone on using Volume Up+Power, that boots me into hboot, right?
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Volume down and power
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Nicgraner said:
Volume down and power
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So then Volume Up + Power boots me into recovery? Or does it not do anything?

Vol up and power boots you into some other mode, I don't remember what it's called.
I believe it's the original recovery, cause when i bricked my phone several months ago (i got impatient and decided to just flash the original stock img file (i thought it was as easy as idevices) without having the engineering hboot. Anyways I think it took me to the stock recovery mode

I2IEAILiiTY said:
Vol up and power boots you into some other mode, I don't remember what it's called.
I believe it's the original recovery, cause when i bricked my phone several months ago (i got impatient and decided to just flash the original stock img file (i thought it was as easy as idevices) without having the engineering hboot. Anyways I think it took me to the stock recovery mode
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Oh. Alright. Do you know if there's anyway to change that? So that I can make the volume up button and power do nothing, and make it like camera button and power?
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theholyfork said:
Oh. Alright. Do you know if there's anyway to change that? So that I can make the volume up button and power do nothing, and make it like camera button and power?
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I'm not sure. The only thing I know inside out like that are iDevices.

I2IEAILiiTY said:
I'm not sure. The only thing I know inside out like that are iDevices.
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Alright haha. Im assuming its somewhere on the device, cause I think that something like that would have to be programmed in. Ill give it a shot and try to find a way to change it lol
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Help

Hi guys part my lg nexus 4 is not responsive. When I try power of my phone I can press power of but when I click OK to continue it don't work. It from there my screen does not work. My question is there anything I can do to fix if or is fixing screen only fix and if so how much is it.
Thank you so much
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Mohanned85 said:
Hi guys part my lg nexus 4 is not responsive. When I try power of my phone I can press power of but when I click OK to continue it don't work. It from there my screen does not work. My question is there anything I can do to fix if or is fixing screen only fix and if so how much is it.
Thank you so much
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have you tried force rebooting your phone? long press the power button for about 10-15 seconds. after it powers off and reboots, check to see if that spot is working again.

simms22 said:
have you tried force rebooting your phone? long press the power button for about 10-15 seconds. after it powers off and reboots, check to see if that spot is working again.
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Tried still same issue. Anyway you can force power of. Was gonna try factory reset in recovery
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Mohanned85 said:
Tried still same issue. Anyway you can force power of. Was gonna try factory reset in recovery
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force reboot your phone again, if you press down volume down, and hold it down as its rebooting, itll boot into the bootloader. you can get into recovery or power off your phone there. there are also free apps that will power off/reboot/reboot recovery/reboot bootloader.

I powered it of and back on. Screen not responsive grr. I can't unlock my phone
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I factory reset to and nothing grrr
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the screen isnt responsive at all? and after a factory reset? might be best to rma it.

simms22 said:
the screen isnt responsive at all? and after a factory reset? might be best to rma it.
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Its only half responsive
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simms22 said:
the screen isnt responsive at all? and after a factory reset? might be best to rma it.
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what you mean rma it
thanks pal

phone water damage

so my brother dropped his phone is water, we did the rice trick. about 5 days later we went to see it and it turned on. but it wont get pass the Samsung
Galaxy S4.
so i used odin to try and like restore the original os.
everything worked fine but the same thing happen.
i tried going into recovery mode but it wont load recovery .
now i'm just letting it sit there on the Samsung screen maybe its gonna take a while to start up idk.
So my question is what can i do to fix this. maybe you guys know something that can to make get passed this screen. or at least go into recovery because i think its not loading because i couldn't wipe the data and cache eta..... i think that why it wont boot up.
or maybe the phone is just messed up forever.

bry2872 said:
so my brother dropped his phone is water, we did the rice trick. about 5 days later we went to see it and it turned on. but it wont get pass the Samsung
Galaxy S4.
so i used odin to try and like restore the original os.
everything worked fine but the same thing happen.
i tried going into recovery mode but it wont load recovery .
now i'm just letting it sit there on the Samsung screen maybe its gonna take a while to start up idk.
So my question is what can i do to fix this. maybe you guys know something that can to make get passed this screen. or at least go into recovery because i think its not loading because i couldn't wipe the data and cache eta..... i think that why it wont boot up.
or maybe the phone is just messed up forever.
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How are you trying to go into recovery?
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rcklss1 said:
How are you trying to go into recovery?
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By Taking out the battery putting it back in and then holding the volume up button and the power button. It goes to the samsung galaxy s4 screen to say that the right booting recovery but then it just stays there doesn't do anything.
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Your suppose to hold volume up and power button and home button at the same time. When the small blue writing appears in the upper left corner let go of the power button only. Then when it enters recovery let the other two go.
Try that method.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
Your suppose to hold volume up and power button and home button at the same time. When the small blue writing appears in the upper left corner let go of the power button only. Then when it enters recovery let the other two go.
Try that method.
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Funny how people really believe that the home button needs to be pressed.

Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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Well I tried what you said still didnt work... idk maybe ill just take it apart and see if theres still water inside
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bry2872 said:
Well I tried what you said still didnt work... idk maybe ill just take it apart and see if theres still water inside
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If you dont mind waiting instead of taking it apart place phone in rice for about 24 to 48 hours. Rice sucks moisture out of the phone. If thst dont help then you can consider taking apart.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
If you dont mind waiting instead of taking it apart place phone in rice for about 24 to 48 hours. Rice sucks moisture out of the phone. If thst dont help then you can consider taking apart.
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I put in rice already. But I'll put in rice agian when I get home. If it still dosent work then ill just take it apart.
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Reinaldo33897 said:
Well if you know better help the guy out. We are all here to help each other out not quote stupid comments. If I recall on xda rules if you have nothing good to say then keep it to yourself.
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You posted incorrect info. Its hold pwrand volume til it turns on, release pwr, keep holding volume until the blue words appear.
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Bypass Activation

Looked around and found this to work,
On the Choose Language Screen: Vol +, Vol -, Back, Menu, Home
Hope this helps others

Interesting, thank you for this.
If the phone has already been activated once, does one need to re-activate it if there is a factory reset/data wipe?

darabo said:
Interesting, thank you for this.
If the phone has already been activated once, does one need to re-activate it if there is a factory reset/data wipe?
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not sure on factory reset, was testing some things on a broken G2 and needed past the sim card activation and was able to this way

I read those instructions and the first thing that came to mind was cheat codes for old Sega games.
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spitzaf said:
I read those instructions and the first thing that came to mind was cheat codes for old Sega games.
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Haha same. Contra ftw
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squish72 said:
Looked around and found this to work,
On the Choose Language Screen: Vol +, Vol -, Back, Menu, Home
Hope this helps others
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Flawless..
Thanks
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squish72 said:
Looked around and found this to work,
On the Choose Language Screen: Vol +, Vol -, Back, Menu, Home
Hope this helps others
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Touching the corners from top left and going clockwise doesn't work anymore?