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just bought this bravo(used one), the phone was up when i bought it, when I did factory reset and restart it, since then the screen is stuck NO SIM CARD, FOR EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY.
how do I pass this screen? please helppppppp
Go into stock recovery and select tools. Then start adb
Pull system/buildprop
Then add the deblur lines in my deblur post
Or sign in with Wi-Fi
Might work... sounds like its not reading your sim card?
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I am new with bravo, so could you please send the link? or describe how do I do it?
Borrow an at*t sim card from someone
Explaining how to do the.above is hard to do
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Hey People,
Need some help here please.
My Defy keeps restarting a few minutes after I have entered the PIN for my Sim
I haven't rooted it or anything.....
I've had this problem since about 11 this morning, I havent downloaded / installed any apps since last night.....
I have done a factory reset via settings and also a hard reset (turning phone on and holding down the volume button)
Any ideas on what I can do??
Thanks in advance
try booting w/o sim
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nogoodusername said:
try booting w/o sim
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I've tried that as well, then went through the painstaking "enter log in details" on motoblur etc, but the same thing keeps happening
Did your phone company cancelled your SIM card?
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if you disable data in your phone, it reboot ?
Hello, and apologies if this is posted somewhere in the forum already, but there are just so many threads to search through and i'm panicking!:crying:
Last night my Nexus 4 fell out of my jeans pocket about 2 ft onto my tiled bathroom floor. it has a diagonal crack from bottom right corner to 3/4 way up to the left side of the screen. I had a pattern lock applied and now because of the damage only the top 3 characters work which means in my case i cant unlock the screen. I am desperate to unlock it before repairing it because i have pictures of our newborn son; just 18 days old.
I have been told that whoever repairs it will hard reset the phone 'due to data protection'. I dont care about anything else on the phone, but i cant replace those photo's, so please, can anybody help me and let me know a way that i could retrieve these precious pictures?
some info that might be helpful? :-
It isn't rooted
Its the 16gb version
its running android 4.2.2
Its a UK handset (i'm based in the UK)
It does recognise the handset when plugged into a computer via USB, but i assume because the handset is 'locked' with the pattern, it won't let me download the pics.
Please help if you can. Thanks in advance.
Cydonian74
Keep doing the wrong pattern until it has you enter your gmail password.
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do i need to have 4 characters minimum available? i can only use 3 and what you are suggesting (unless it takes ages) isn't doing anything?
Thanks.
Have you tried connecting your phone through USB onto another computer and accessing the phone's Internal SD card in "my computer"? If that didn't work... Then, do you have USB debugging enabled in your phone? If you do, then you can use ADB from the computer to pull the SD card contents (you don't need to have root access for that).
I can understand how you are feeling. I went through a similar situation when my Handycam hard disk got corrupted... but that's another story...
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i have plugged it into my home laptop; it recognises the nexus 4, but i assume that because the screen/phone is locked, that for (security?) it wont let me download or indeed show any pictures.
Where do or would i find the ADB on my computer? i never turned on or off android debugging, so if it was switched on from the factory then it still will be.
Gutted!
cydonian74 said:
i have plugged it into my home laptop; it recognises the nexus 4, but i assume that because the screen/phone is locked, that for (security?) it wont let me download or indeed show any pictures.
Where do or would i find the ADB on my computer? i never turned on or off android debugging, so if it was switched on from the factory then it still will be.
Gutted!
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Unfortunately, USB debugging is turned off by factory defaults, so ADB is out of the question.
I'd like to know what you mean when you say that the computer recognizes the phone...
Apart from that, you might wanna try one of these Freeware Android file explorers/browsers that don't require root access (google them). That way there's still a chance.
Don't give up.
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I mean that it says on my computer when plugged into the usb 'Nexus 4' but shows no files to extract. I pressume that means that because the screen'phone is locked that it won't allow access?
cydonian74 said:
I mean that it says on my computer when plugged into the usb 'Nexus 4' but shows no files to extract. I pressume that means that because the screen'phone is locked that it won't allow access?
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Try a 3rd party file explorer like this for Windows OS : http://de.codeplex.com/releases/view/96251
It might help accessing your precious photos...
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jj_95nano said:
Try a 3rd party file explorer like this for Windows OS : http://de.codeplex.com/releases/view/96251
It might help accessing your precious photos...
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I've downloaded that but i really have no idea how i will use it?! What am i looking for here?
flash TWRP in fastboot. Then boot to the bootloader and select recovery. You can use adb no problem from recovery. The exception is, I think you need to have the bootloader unlocked to flash a custom recovery (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
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flash TWRP in fastboot. Then boot to the bootloader and select recovery. You can use adb no problem from recovery. The exception is, I think you need to have the bootloader unlocked to flash a custom recovery (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
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I'm a real layman here, a noob i think you would say. I am really unfamiliar with all of this and its pretty scary; i just want to retrieve these photos. Can somebody 'hold my hand' and walk me through this step by step please?
Cydonian74
May b its stupid idea bt if nexus4 has UTG and if you have the cable,
Connect a mouse and try to do a pattern unlock..... may b it will work
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I've downloaded that but i really have no idea how i will use it?! What am i looking for here?
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See this video on how to use the software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmPdW6US5X0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
What you are looking for here is to use the file explorer to navigate to your SD card and get your pictures.
You wanna be willing to do/learn anything if you really wanna get your pics...
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I think you will be able to factory reset your phone from stock recovery..
This should just factory reset your phone but not get rid of anything on your sd card
When your phone boots back up it will be as if you just took your phone out the box.. Hopefully you should be able to get the files on your pc as the screen lock would have been reset
Can anyone confirm?
Rizy7 said:
I think you will be able to factory reset your phone from stock recovery..
This should just factory reset your phone but not get rid of anything on your sd card
When your phone boots back up it will be as if you just took your phone out the box.. Hopefully you should be able to get the files on your pc as the screen lock would have been reset
Can anyone confirm?
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No. That wipes the SD as well
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El Daddy said:
No. That wipes the SD as well
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Hmm what if he uses safe mode? Does that get rid of the need to pin unlock
Rizy7 said:
I think you will be able to factory reset your phone from stock recovery..
This should just factory reset your phone but not get rid of anything on your sd card
When your phone boots back up it will be as if you just took your phone out the box.. Hopefully you should be able to get the files on your pc as the screen lock would have been reset
Can anyone confirm?
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Actually on my Galaxy S2, if i do a factory reset, all the things remain on the internal SD. But I don't know how it works on theNexus 4...
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El Daddy said:
No. That wipes the SD as well
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I have mananged to get the phone to this point and i am unsure wether to proceed with any of the options for fear of wiping the photos and data. Can anybody confirm wether or not any of these options would work or not in unlocking my phone without deleting the photos on the sd card?
Thanks.
cydonian74 said:
I have mananged to get the phone to this point and i am unsure wether to proceed with any of the options for fear of wiping the photos and data. Can anybody confirm wether or not any of these options would work or not in unlocking my phone without deleting the photos on the sd card?
Thanks.
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Anybody?
Believe it or not, but I actually have a spare nexus 4 that is in exactly the state your phone is in. Let me do some testing and I'll post results.
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Okay, so I encrypted my storage last night. Today I rebooted the phone and it asked for a password as soon as it booted. I typed the password in but it says wrong password! Tried it countless times but I can't get into the device!
I have cwm installed but nothing I do on there helps either.
Please help! :/
Wipe data factory reset
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muhamet said:
Wipe data factory reset
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Doesn't work :/ Still comes telling me to enter my pin or password to use the encrypted device memory
You're not using SIM PIN and phone password combination are you?
Also tried with SD card removed?
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Wipe data factory reset
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Will T said:
You're not using SIM PIN and phone password combination are you?
Also tried with SD card removed?
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Ah, fixed it! Had to flash stock firmware via odin then go into stock recovery and wipe data, factory reset!
I have the same problem, encrypted the memory device (not SD card or whatsoever) and when i put my password it says "try again", i did a lot of methods, tried factory data reset (combination of keys), flash with odin (it passed the whole process fine, but at the end the phone still the same asking for a password) ..
What else can do? the password that the phone is asking me is not a PIN code, it is a password for ENCRYPTED MEMORY. My phone model is SPH L720T Sprint Spark for USA.
Thanks in advance.
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Help, I downgraded from 2.3 to 2.2 for various reasons,but now when I try to upgrade again I just get the pink screen ,if I try using the option from settings/storage,it says key data couldn't be backed up , the installation will stop. Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up completely so I can't even continue to use it in 2.2 can anyone advise ?
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Try to put the 2.3 dload folder to a sd card, then remove the battery, plug in a USB cable to the computer and the phone, volume up+down+power (if I remember right lol). See if it will update that way.
no, that's the usual way I've been flashing it, I can get to the image folder ,but it won't boot into recovery either
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totsy1972 said:
no, that's the usual way I've been flashing it, I can get to the image folder ,but it won't boot into recovery either
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Odd. Maybe try to flash the ICS pink screen unlocker? I had weird issues at some point too, then I flashed that and the problems went away. Afterwards flash ICS.
Just tried that,still no luck,it doesn't even get to the unpacking screen,it just stays pink. beginning to think its beyond repair
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totsy1972 said:
Just tried that,still no luck,it doesn't even get to the unpacking screen,it just stays pink. beginning to think its beyond repair
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I think it's still possible to fix it. I was loosing hopes too, but I messed around with it anyway and got it working. Just try different dload's, different methods and maybe you'll get it running. Maybe other users will have some ideas too.
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I think it's still possible to fix it. I was loosing hopes too, but I messed around with it anyway and got it working. Just try different dload's, different methods and maybe you'll get it running. Maybe other users will have some ideas too.
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I've been trying all different ways, this is what I get when trying it from storage menu
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@Moihack maybe you have any ideas? You've written this to me before:
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As long as your phone still gets power and pink/blue screen shows there is nothing to be afraid of yet,since this isn't a hardbrick.
Contact me on hangouts telling me what you have done resulting in the above issue.
I have bricked my u8800pro in every possible way both soft and hard brick (thank god warranty was still active back then).
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Hi there!
I think when you upgrade from software menu there is an option for data back-up.
Uncheck this option and the error should go away.
Also what do you mean with this: "Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up" ?
What do you mean it locks up? Touchscreen is not responsive for example?
My suggestions:
1) Do a factory reset and then check if you can upgrade
2) Try re-installing your recovery(use cwm 5.0.27 by geno for best compatibility) or even replace the whole image folder with the froyo one from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2146856
Your phone is not beyond repair that's for sure. Since it boots fine.
Moihack said:
Hi there!
I think when you upgrade from software menu there is an option for data back-up.
Uncheck this option and the error should go away.
Also what do you mean with this: "Also if I boot into the system it runs fine for about a minute then locks up" ?
What do you mean it locks up? Touchscreen is not responsive for example?
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I haven't noticed an option for data backup,will check again later on. And yes when it locks up touch screen becomes unresponsive and none of the buttons respond either. Also when I try to enter recovery ,both custom and stock, it displays the kernel logo then vibrates with a black screen for a second then back to kernel logo and continues to boot.
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Ok guys,I copied over the stock image folder and now it works ok, however I still can't upgrade from froyo. At least I can use it again though so thanks for your help, its much appreciated. Incidentally, there wasn't an option to back up data when upgrading, but that error has now gone, except it now just reboots instead, so I will just keep trying.
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[Edit] Finally I've managed to upgrade to GB , had to put both step 1 and step 2 in the same dload folder and it worked. So cheers for the tips
You've put all steps in one folder?
DarkSkyGhost said:
You've put all steps in one folder?
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Steps 1&2 in dload folder ,step 2 renamed to UPDATE_G.APP.
Didn't use step 3 as I was updating to ICS after that
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