Hi All,
I mistakenly entered my password and Activesync locked my phone.
I was running the Litening rom which allowed me to load Clockmod and copy my data off. I then re-flashed it with the Litening ROM again but after initial configuration the screen lock comes on and asks for a password.
I re-flashed again and tried to change the screen lock but it asks for the password to change.
Finally I thought it was something wrong with the Litening ROM so I installed the Check5Rom performed initial configuration and the screen lock is still there!?
Has anyone else had the same issue with Activesync locking the device?
I own my phone and was using Exchange at the company I am consulting at, mistakenly I didn't use Touchdown otherwise I could have avoided this.
Is there anyway to fix this without having to the Exchange admit and get him to type in the unlock password?
Any help would be awesome
I thought activesync was windows mobile only, times move on... not sure this would lock your phone now, try clearing all ROM data, partition and dalvic and reinstall ROM. alternatively if you have a backup on clock that should solve it. Unless you are talking about a password in windows or something, i'm confused to be honest.
I created an Exchange account under "Accounts and Sync" which allowed me to connect to the company's Exchange/OWA Server.
Unfortunately I didn't read the fine print and when I messed the password up it locked my phone ;(
full reflash then
ask your exchange sync admin to remove the lock?
Thanks guys for helping. I had to put the original Samsung Galaxy S2 rom back on and remove the custom roms totally.
I followed this blog post that showed how to put I9100XXKH3 back on my phone.
This got me back to 2.3.4. When I rebooted it still asked me for a password, I failed it on purpose 3 times and it wiped my phone. When it rebooted after the wipe I was back to a new rom and I could reset the screen lock.
Not sure if it is an issue specific to Litening rom? But from now on I am using Touchdown rather than native active sync on my phone.
Thanks again everyone!
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Help,
I upgraded my BA, got everything working great, added a password cause i leave it at work mon to friday, came to unlock it and it is saying my password is wrong, i know dam well it is not.
It then said that i had to wait 8 min to re enter eventually.
I tried again to no avail
Is there anyway round this? can i re boot another rom?
PLEASE HELP
Kinjo
I ended up reloading another rom, glad i did because the one that i did was/is better.
Now running WM6 Pro - Build 18125.0.4.2
Thanks
Try a blank password and check if it works.
kinjo said:
Help,
I upgraded my BA, got everything working great, added a password cause i leave it at work mon to friday, came to unlock it and it is saying my password is wrong, i know dam well it is not.
It then said that i had to wait 8 min to re enter eventually.
I tried again to no avail
Is there anyway round this? can i re boot another rom?
PLEASE HELP
Kinjo
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If you are sure you are entering the right password then its either...
You got flat battery or somebody might have removed your battery.
The only thing you can do is to Hard Reset your phone and choose the No/Yes/No Option to protect your data.
that will restore the Original Registry BUT your program customization will be gone if you do that.
TIP:
dont use the WM6 System Password.
Find an alternative password protection program on the web.
Hi,
today that happened to me the second time. My battery runs complettely out of charge an then BA doesn´t accept my password. This can´t be right?!?!
can you tell me which alternate password protection software I can use?
SOLVED.
Greets.
A mate of mine forgot his unlock password the other day. At first I thought it was gonna be the same as with Galaxy S - just flash it or better yet do a wipe/factory reset in recovery and be rid of it - boy was I wrong... I tried everything I could come up with - flashing costum SW, different kernels from xda, older/newer original SW, CMW resets etc. - no luck at all.
So now I turn to you beloved XDA and ur techies - does anyone have any idea how we could reset our SGS2's so that this passwords would be gone aswell?
Solution:
Just spam random passwords (think it was 5 wrong) and then a message appears, that the SD card will be reset and a full wipe will be done - press OK and bang the phone boots normally.
In case anyone finds themselves in the same situation. You lose all your data ofcourse but the password is deleted and bang the phone works.
What password are you talking about, because a factory reset in recovery mode should do it.
I am talking about the screen lock with a password. Like I said nothing works... everytime I turn the phone on I get the "Confirm Password" screen thrown in my face
A ROM flash should definitely get rid of that, but I'm very surprised that a factory reset doesn't do it.
Like I said I tried flashing original roms (older and newer of KE2), costum roms (villian, litenin etc.), different kernels - the password is still here.
I'm stumped then mate. I've never had a lockscreen password persist from one ROM to another. I think household insurance and a brick may be the easiest way to remove it
Hehe ye I was not exactly exstatic about it either... I've been playing with roms etc. since my 1st android Samsung Galaxy (GT-I7500) and the one thing that was always persistant was "Software saves" - and now this with the SGS2...
I just tried the same on mine - set the password and flashed the official KF3 - got welcomed with the "Confirm Password" screen and just input my password that I set before and bang the phone finished with the software update and booted normally...
Thinking this thread would be better off in the development section in case anyone will have the time to look into where this stuff is stored and make a workaround (perhaps similar like the nv_data one for network unlock).
This is purely a guess and I haven't tried it on SGS2, but you could try flashing a ROM via Odin and ticking the option "Phone EFS clear". Not sure but this could wipe also the EMMC partition where I have heard the screen lock data is stored in. I won't take any responsibility on bricked phones or other problems though...
I only did try this on my wife's SGS and for it it did not do any harm.
Nightravenn said:
Thinking this thread would be better off in the development section in case anyone will have the time to look into where this stuff is stored and make a workaround (perhaps similar like the nv_data one for network unlock).
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Tut tut matey. It's a question - it's already in the wrong forum
Heh my bad about the placement of the topic
@Pume EFS is actually where the calibration is stored aswell (which is different for every phone/IMEI/RF), but yes I did try it aswell heh, also tried the bootloader update option ticked on - same story still the damn PSD (Password screen of death?).
First you can try to disable the password via adb (in recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110307
If its not the right description you could try to format the data partition in recovery and then flash a new rom. No idea how smart that is on the galaxy s II but on the desire it was perfectly save. Last i believe this is a more common problem and there should be other threads around with solutions.
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Heh my bad about the placement of the topic
@Pume EFS is actually where the calibration is stored (which is different for every phone/IMEI/RF), altho yes I did try it aswell heh, also tried the bootloader update option ticked on - same story still the damn PSD (Password screen of death?).
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Oh, good to know anyway. Damn I'm never gonna put a password on mine as I tend to forget even my own birthday
You could try that again(flash a rom) without your SIM card and maybe without your MicroSD. Maybe it syncs with data and get the password lock from there.
Are you sure the password isn't a PUK lock? Try booting the phone without a sim. If it works, then the password is restricting your use of the service by locking you out of the phone. To solve this you can do one of two things:
1. Get the Sim replaced
2. Call your provider for an unlock code and GET RID OF IT in the security settings under sim-lock
Hope that helped!
Actually I always flash roms without the SD card and SIM as I've come to realise some .pit's acutally repartition your SD card aswell thus erasing it - cheers for the post tho.
@TheGhost1233
You might be on to something with that actually but now I have another problem... for some reason everytime I want to go to recovery it shows that little yellow box (the usual one before going into recovery) and then back to the dumbass PSD. So I can't get ADB working now at all.
I almost don't want to post this hehe...
But ye found a solution - spammed random passwords (think it was 5 wrong) and then a message appeared, that the SD card will be reset and a full wipe will be done - pressed OK and bang the phone boots normally
In case anyone finds themselves in the same situation. You lose all your data ofcourse but the password is deleted and bang the phone works
I think this is anti-theft protection, at least your info is gonna be deleted if someone steals it
My Galaxy S4 decided to password protect itself... no idea why. I usually use the Lock Screen pattern, when I screw that up enough it prompts me for a PIN. I guess that's what happened, but after I got in after doing entering the PIN, I didn't reset my PIN or pattern, so now it's asking me for a password to get into the phone.
I've tried using Android Device Manager to send the phone a new password... it doesn't work. When I send an integer only password the phone prompts for a PIN, but it doesn't accept the PIN I send, and when I send it a alpha-numeric password, it prompts for a password, but doesn't accept that either. Clearly the phone is acknowledging the receipt of new protocol.... but it's not adhering to the new directions.
Anyone know how get around this? Or another method that doesn't require me destroying all of my data? Or a way for me to retrieve my data without having to manually select "Use as Media Device" (can't do this since I can't access the drop down menu).
Well, if you're rooted you can mount to your computer via the recovery.
You can also try a dirty flash. Will not destroy your data but it may cause bugs and other problems.
Maybe you got some kind of virus.
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Well, if you're rooted you can mount to your computer via the recovery.
You can also try a dirty flash. Will not destroy your data but it may cause bugs and other problems.
Maybe you got some kind of virus.
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Not rooted, do I have to be rooted for a dirty flash?
You have to be rooted to install any kind of custom rom.
I think samsung kies has a backup feature. But I may also backup the password.
Peace ALL,
Hopefully someone can please help me!! I recently purchased a used OP2 off of Amazon. Phone received was in good shape and looked brand new. The problem I have however is that I can't bypass the initial set-up (I think it has something to do with Google factory Reset Protection).
Whenever the phone is in the initial setup process its asking for a gmail that was synced to the device before it was wiped--which of course I dont have access to. Is there any workaround for this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
i had the same problem as i got it second hand.The thing with me was that i knew the owner.
The problem is that the previous owner wiped the device from the boot menu ( the one that looks like twrp) and not from the in menu setting.
this is why it asks for a previous mail.
I asked for his mail and password ,logged in, went to settings did a factory reset form the menu and all ok.I dont know what you could do without his mail and password.
Maybe unlock it put twrp custom rom open it and then reset it to factory settings?
Does anybody know if unlocking bootloader and flashing the stock ROM will bypass Google Device Protection (not sure if this will work as i think the OP2 is already "unlocked")?
Someone please help
I am having the same issue. I've read how you have to wait 72 hours but I am not sure if it will work.
Afternoon,
First post, so please bear with me if I don't post as much information as you need.
My girlfriend has an S8, which she changed the lock code on drunk and forgot she did it, let her phone die overnight and then entered her code wrong enough times to force a factory reset. My problem now is she doesn't know her google username and password, because she accepted an auto-generated gmail account when she first set the phone up. So I am now stuck at the sign in screen asking for the account that was originally used to setup the phone.
I've googled and seen some small USB you can plugin to get to the setting screen to perform another factory reset, which I can't find information on if this workaround had been patched or not. The phone would of been using the latest version of everything before it forced the factory reset.
So first question, if I purchased this USB, would it work?
Second question, would flashing the phone with a new copy of the stock rom get around this problem? If so, does anyone have a guide I can follow? I've never flashed any phones before, but I am quite technically capable
TIA for any and all help