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Vibrant Locked Out

So, dumb self made a pattern that I don't remember. So my Vibrant is at the Too Many Pattern Attempts screen. I've tried to wipe the phone using vol up and down plus power but that doesn't remove the too many attempts screen at all. The only gmail account that I hooked up to my phone keeps telling me that something is incorrect yet I can log in to my gmail fine from my computer... What can I do? I tried to do Odin, but vol down plus power does nothing on my phone. It just continuously power cycles... When I boot into the recovery screen I can use Odin but it just hangs at checking files... Any suggestions?

Do you have coverage? Maybe the Google verification can't connect. It always worked on my myTouch and once on the Vibrant.
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using the XDA app

Tmobile Galaxy S pattern locked out, can't root
I just bought my first Android device, the Samsung Galaxy S from Tmobile from the US (I live in China) last week. I have only used it a few days and my girlfriend thought the pattern lock would be a fun game to play. Result - locked out. I have the same problems as in the below thread:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4784
I tried the receive a phone call then hammer the home key; emergency call and go to search and many of these type fixes; however none have gotten me through. It seems they fixed the security problem here but didn't fix the username password problem as I'm sure the credentials I entered are correct and I have data service.
After giving up on these methods I tried doing a hard reset. BTW, on this model you must hold down volume up AND down buttons at the same time, then press the power button to get the reset screen.
I have cleared user data etc, but when I try to reset the phone I get the error message "setup.zip not found".
I understand that I now need to root the phone, so I tried the method explained here but without having access to the phone I need to load this setup.zip file on the SD (not the one with Avatar).
http://samsungvibranthacks.com/samsung-vibrant-hacks/how-to-root-samsung-vibrant-galaxy-s/
I already installed Kies (has Outlook sync functionality!) on my desktop so that I can access the internal memory as an external drive. However the phone's USB mode must be set to (it will prompt whenever I connect) to Kies mode. However since I am locked out of the phone I can't tell the phone to get into Kies mode, therefore cannot access the internal memory, therefore cannot load setup.zip, therefore cannot root, therefore cannot get past the pattern lock screen = useless phone.
I need to root the phone anyway so I can load a few Asian IME's that didn't come with the phone so don't mind playing with this, but since I'm new to Android it may be a while before I can get through since most root instructions either require access to the internal memory via my computer or access to the phone (past the pattern lock).
If I offer to make a paypal donation could I summon the help of one of the more experienced Android gods that frequent this forum that can help me get through this?

To use odin you need to get into download mode not recovery mode (Volume Down+ Power) but since for some reason that wont work for you, you will have to do something involving the android sdk do you know how to use it?

Genesis1791 said:
To use odin you need to get into download mode not recovery mode (Volume Down+ Power) but since for some reason that wont work for you, you will have to do something involving the android sdk do you know how to use it?
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On one or two tries, when the device was attached to my laptop I got a yellow on black downloading screen but had no idea what it meant. How does this help me root it? In general the volume down+plus power button didn't do anything but reboot it.
I just downloaded the SDK last night for the last time and haven't succeeded in installing it so have still got a bit of learning to go before I can make it useful.

I have the phone back in my hand now so adding some details:
Holding volume up and down and the same time, then pressing powere gets me to the "Android system recover <2e>" screen with four options:
Reboot system now
reinstall packagages
delete all user data
delete cache data
I've tried all and none will get me out of the username/password screen after reboot. If I select "reinstall packages" it says:
E:can't open /sdcard/update.zip
(No such file or directory)
Installation aborted

[Info] Encrypted tablet and problems

Hello
I did the mistake today to encrypt the tablet with the option provided in the settings menu. After everything went fine and the tablet run for some hours, it force rebooted and now I can login to the tablet but there is a two step login (decryption and the unlock). While decryption works, unlock does not, there is no keyboard displayed and everything seems to "hang". Connection an USB keyboard did not help.
How to reset?
- Connect USB keyboard
- Press Power + (Vol -) while booting the device
- When you can select wipe data and cache, select it
In my case the option was not possible, then do the following:
- Get the update.acer.zip in the dev forum
- Put it an the external SD-Card
- Press Power + (Vol -) while booting the device
- System will be "updated"
- Root your device
- Install a system.img for your region
- Have fun again with the device
Greets

I encrypted the day I got mine (after rooting) and have had no problems. Obviously something went wrong for you, but I don't think you can make the generalization that encryption will fail. It's also possible something on your tablet interfered, or your internal sd is bad or something.

What does encrypting do?

My assumption is that if you encrypt it the government goons at the airports and border can't as easily poke around in it(or at all) if you don't "remember" the password.
Oh yea, and although they're less malevolent, criminals can't access your data if your device is stolen.

Such a broad over the top warning with no basis or facts that encrypting had anything to do with your problems. Don't make such statements unless you're 100% sure it was the encryption process. I encrypted my friends Acer with zero problems.

I changed the title and provided more information when someone has the same problem like me to solve it.
Don't know why my device was "broken", had nothing other installed and nothing changed. Anyway had no chance to retry it, device in the service while back camera cover was not holding in the case.

Thank you for correcting that and happy to see you're fine now.

Can't get past TWRP

Phone was working fine yesterday. Went to sleep and woke up to the phone booted into recovery. Now I can't get it to reboot past recovery. Anyone know why this happened or how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Check and see if system is mounted. Also are you sure that it didn't attempt an update last night?

The EXACT same thing happened to me this morning! Unfortunately I had to get to class before I could figure out how to fix it. When I get back home tonight I will try to get my phone to boot like normal and will tell you how I did it.

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Check and see if system is mounted. Also are you sure that it didn't attempt an update last night?
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I have no way of knowing if it attempted an update last night. I was asleep. I tried restoring a nandroid backup from 8 days ago and it still won't boot past TWRP.
Help please! I'm at the Cleveland Clinic with my wife and just found out that my grandmother died today and have to drive back to Michigan tonight. I need a phone and Waze!

animator776 said:
The EXACT same thing happened to me this morning! Unfortunately I had to get to class before I could figure out how to fix it. When I get back home tonight I will try to get my phone to boot like normal and will tell you how I did it.
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I'm sorry to hear, but glad I'm not alone in this. Hopefully we can figure something out.

Sorry about your lose. But click mount and see if system is checked. That's what happened to me before. Making sure system was checked let me boot back up.
If that doesn't work plug your phone into your comp if possible and check to make sure you still have everything on your phone. Another time I had accidently wiped everything and only way to get back up was using the kdz
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I have no way of knowing if it attempted an update last night. I was asleep. I tried restoring a nandroid backup from 8 days ago and it still won't boot past TWRP.
Help please! I'm at the Cleveland Clinic with my wife and just found out that my grandmother died today and have to drive back to Michigan tonight. I need a phone and Waze!
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my_handle said:
Sorry about your lose. But click mount and see if system is checked. That's what happened to me before. Making sure system was checked let me boot back up.
If that doesn't work plug your phone into your comp if possible and check to make sure you still have everything on your phone. Another time I had accidently wiped everything and only way to get back up was using the kdz
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I checked system under mount, rebooted and still won't go past TWRP.

Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.

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Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.
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Dude, I love you. I'm back! Just in time for my 3 hour drive home!

if this dosnt work
use twrp file manager to go find the fota and mis folders,
or boot into fastboot and send these comands
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase fota
data/mis
data/fota
something like this is its path.
data/etc/misc
data/etc/fota
this 2 spots have the update commands that cause twrp loop.
i have a help post in my rom with full walkthrough.

Bootloop into TWRP recovery
Thank you so much, I too was having a panic attack after I flashed a custom rom and it some how altered this and put me in a boot loop into TWRP. I had a couple of questions in regards to ROMS that have native tethering enabled. 1. Is there one that allows Native tethering enabled for sprint? and 2. Is there one that you can update the PRL and profile settings and also one that does use an APN that has DNS issues and a proxy that blocks certain sites? currently I downloaded the ROM that is on the Dirty Santa site its called LS997-deODEXd-signed and it has a hidden proxy that blocks DNS from certain sites also you cannot update.

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Thank you so much, I too was having a panic attack after I flashed a custom rom and it some how altered this and put me in a boot loop into TWRP. I had a couple of questions in regards to ROMS that have native tethering enabled. 1. Is there one that allows Native tethering enabled for sprint? and 2. Is there one that you can update the PRL and profile settings and also one that does use an APN that has DNS issues and a proxy that blocks certain sites? currently I downloaded the ROM that is on the Dirty Santa site its called LS997-deODEXd-signed and it has a hidden proxy that blocks DNS from certain sites also you cannot update.
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Download one of my 11 roms ive currently put out.
they all work 100% as far as dns stuff
for tether you need to add the "dun" to your apns. There isnt currently a built in mod.
as well as using shortcut master to add the "dun" to your apns also gets you to where you can change them
prl and profile updates work also as well as fm radio, wifi calling, fingerprint, comfort view etc.

midmadn said:
Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.
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I had to do this again today. This is not good. How can we stop this? I rely on my phone as an alarm clock and this could really screw me if it happens again at night.

Have you frozen or disabled the apps that look for updates?
Supposedly this is what causes it. The bootloader looks for update files in the folders where updates are downloaded and if it finds a file there it reboots recovery.
You have to remove those files, ( I think it automatically deletes them if you go through the factory reset process with the volume down, power button sequence).
And you have to freeze or disable the update apps.

These are the apps I froze. The 3 near the bottom that are blue.

i did this https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/lg-v20-access-to-fastboot-t3557328

Most bootloops are caused by an update file residing on the internal memory. It is not necessary to do all of the stuff in that post. You just need to do the volume down / power button trick to go through the 2 factory reset screens.
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Have you tried power on and volume down to go through the factory reset screens.
A bunch of us had this problem and it was because an update downloaded on it's own and the bootloader snoops it out and forces recovery to boot.
Just do the volume down + power button - as soon as you see the lg logo release power only then immediately re-press power and continue holding power and volume down until the factory reset screen pops up. Select yes and yes, (don't worry - if you have twrp recovery it can't reset). It will boot you into TWRP and I'm pretty sure it will delete the update files in fota folder.
In TWRP select reboot - system and it should boot normally like nothing happened.

Protect my Device from getting stolen

Hey guys Recently my Phone got stolen and this time I want to make sure this time it wont happen ever again. I will use Knox and Samsung Secruity to help from it. I have some question, maybe u can anwser them
1) If I lock my Device from Find my Mobile, can the Thief still Factory Reset from Power UP and Vol+ Button from Recovery?
2) Can He still install a Firmware per Odin so he can get acces to my Phone
3) If both can be done , is there anyway to pretend that from Happening?
4) Is knox as good as Icloud?
5) Can i still use find my mobile, if he turns GPS off?
Thanks for the help, this time I will make sure he wont get any benefit from it and I can get my Phone back

hamad138 said:
1) If I lock my Device from Find my Mobile, can the Thief still Factory Reset from Power UP and Vol+ Button from Recovery?
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I think this is something to do with the app you are using. In theory, you should be able to access the Recovery menu because it loads before the OS. Thus the find my phone app is not loaded and active when the recovery mode is loaded.
However, this is my opinion. And I might not be right. My expertise in the area is limited.

FRP lock should do most of the job for you but nowdays there are ways on bypassing that. But FRP is a pain in the ass to unlock , yet doable.

Accidentally locked phone, no way to use USB debugging, please help!

Hi, my sister somehow forgot the graphical key, so phone is now locked. of course it is not a stolen phone , i do keep all the documents proving that it was bought.
So, all the articles point me to use TWRP recovery or similar, but to flash the twrp onto phone i first need to enable USB debugging and unlock bootloader but since phone is locked i can't get to developer setting ....
So, any solution to this? Any help greatly appreciated!
p.s. tried flashing TwRP and aroma zips from microsd flash with no success ( permission error = blocked bootloader?)

u need to unlock bootloader first and if data recovery is avoidable the simply reset device via booting into recovery via power + volume down button
u can simply unlock bootloader via asus official unlock tool without using pc,just a apk to install and use

love4chat said:
u need to unlock bootloader first and if data recovery is avoidable the simply reset device via booting into recovery via power + volume down button
u can simply unlock bootloader via asus official unlock tool without using pc,just a apk to install and use
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Thanks for answer!
1) Reset device (wipe data in recovery menu) does nothing. when i load phone it asks me to enter graphic key to unlock device ((
2) How can i install this apk tool if i can't get past unlock stage? i tried to install it from recovery menu using sd card but it just won't install apk files in recovery mode,or it there something i don't know?
Please help

service center is last solution

pkm37 said:
service center is last solution
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but some people say it is possible to just do wipe data operation to unlock graphical key. I don't understand why it doesn't work in my case..

Since Asus stock rom is encrypted.. .there could be hardly any way to recovery data without twrp or only using phone system.

pkm37 said:
Since Asus stock rom is encrypted.. .there could be hardly any way to recovery data without twrp or only using phone system.
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But there is no need to save any data. Just need to remove pattern lock...
I seen youtube videos of how people just do wipe data reset in stock recovery and after reboot pattern lock is gone. Not in my case! why is that?

eugled said:
But there is no need to save any data. Just need to remove pattern lock...
I seen youtube videos of how people just do wipe data reset in stock recovery and after reboot pattern lock is gone. Not in my case! why is that?
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are those youtube videos for Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2?

eugled said:
But there is no need to save any data. Just need to remove pattern lock...
I seen youtube videos of how people just do wipe data reset in stock recovery and after reboot pattern lock is gone. Not in my case! why is that?
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maybe he/she didn't set up Google account, so no frp lock