Hello all,
I have a unique issue where the most recent Android update caused my password to be truncated from 20 digits to 16 - now it won’t let me login to the phone when the phone starts up. I have 6 attempts left for a factory rest, whereby I lose all my data!
Samsung can’t help because I wasn’t logged into the Google Play Store, and this was a new phone and I haven’t backed up in about 2 weeks. I would like my data back, but that isn’t an option per Samsung, where I heard about this group.
Is there anyway to get my data back? And bypass this update to roll back without being able to login?
Dr. Fone won’t work because I didn’t have the USB Debugging option turned on. I can get into the boot menu, but have little recourse after that. This is a Hail Mary for anyone that might’ve experienced this or has thoughts on how to get my phone back on. Thanks in advance for reading!
And why would Google do this?! At least a big warning would’ve been helpful!
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So I was doing cardio at the gym with my rooted verizon s5 in my pocket. It was only for about 30 minutes and I checked my phone before I started. Once I finished, I checked my phone, only to see the set-up menu asking me what language I wanted, gmail account, etc. I have a lock screen on my phone, so I don't see how it could have pressed the right buttons to reset in my pocket even of the phone was turned on somehow. I had quite a few hours customizing it, so I'm pretty pissed. I did do a back-up and according to root checker I still have root access, so I guess I'll just do that even though the back-up is like a month old. I'm just wondering what the hell happened, and more importantly, how I prevent it in the future. I was getting constant requests for updates and security reports, but always dismissed them because I was told that was normal. Thanks in advance and let me know if you need anymore info.
Mathlete33 said:
So I was doing cardio at the gym with my rooted verizon s5 in my pocket. It was only for about 30 minutes and I checked my phone before I started. Once I finished, I checked my phone, only to see the set-up menu asking me what language I wanted, gmail account, etc. I have a lock screen on my phone, so I don't see how it could have pressed the right buttons to reset in my pocket even of the phone was turned on somehow. I had quite a few hours customizing it, so I'm pretty pissed. I did do a back-up and according to root checker I still have root access, so I guess I'll just do that even though the back-up is like a month old. I'm just wondering what the hell happened, and more importantly, how I prevent it in the future. I was getting constant requests for updates and security reports, but always dismissed them because I was told that was normal. Thanks in advance and let me know if you need anymore info.
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well, maybe it accidentally updated while in your pocket? lol maybe it shut off n u pressed recovery buttons?
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Mathlete33 said:
So I was doing cardio at the gym with my rooted verizon s5 in my pocket. It was only for about 30 minutes and I checked my phone before I started. Once I finished, I checked my phone, only to see the set-up menu asking me what language I wanted, gmail account, etc. I have a lock screen on my phone, so I don't see how it could have pressed the right buttons to reset in my pocket even of the phone was turned on somehow. I had quite a few hours customizing it, so I'm pretty pissed. I did do a back-up and according to root checker I still have root access, so I guess I'll just do that even though the back-up is like a month old. I'm just wondering what the hell happened, and more importantly, how I prevent it in the future. I was getting constant requests for updates and security reports, but always dismissed them because I was told that was normal. Thanks in advance and let me know if you need anymore info.
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Did you have the bottom check box in this Settings screen checked?
Mathlete33 said:
So I was doing cardio at the gym with my rooted verizon s5 in my pocket. It was only for about 30 minutes and I checked my phone before I started. Once I finished, I checked my phone, only to see the set-up menu asking me what language I wanted, gmail account, etc. I have a lock screen on my phone, so I don't see how it could have pressed the right buttons to reset in my pocket even of the phone was turned on somehow. I had quite a few hours customizing it, so I'm pretty pissed. I did do a back-up and according to root checker I still have root access, so I guess I'll just do that even though the back-up is like a month old. I'm just wondering what the hell happened, and more importantly, how I prevent it in the future. I was getting constant requests for updates and security reports, but always dismissed them because I was told that was normal. Thanks in advance and let me know if you need anymore info.
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I restarted mine the other day pulling it out of my pocket. I thought that was odd...
Samsung pocket reset explained. ****ED ME OVER
So about 3 months ago i was playing ultimate Frisbee on a school trip with some friends with my S5 in my pocket. After about 30 minutes of play i heard my phone making a strange noise. I pulled it out and realized i was operating in Chinese on a screen that was seemingly a setup screen. All my phone data had been lost due to a factory reset. I was pissed but it wasn't that big of a deal because i had gotten the phone a week earlier. So I reinstalled the few apps I had, re downloaded my contacts, and didn't look into to it much. But today, four months later, I was doing the same exact thing, playing ultimate Frisbee with some friends, and it happened again. But this time I had a 32 GB SD card in that was nearly full of important pictures, videos, files, folders, documents and schoolwork. What I now know is those retards at Samsung made it so the phone thinks the SD card is part of the phone AND IT PERMANENTLY FORMATTED IT. I was am and still livid that those ****tards have no way to fix this problem what so ever. The phone has a defense mechanism that resets the phone after too many incorrect password attempts and the phone against my leg in my pocket did the ****ing trick! Me - "So there is no way to recover the data?" Dumb Samsung ****head - "No its a permanent reset that protects the phone from intruders". How Stupid do you have to be to create something like that, that can be triggered by so many other means than an intruder, AND HAVE NO WAY TO FIX IT. I am now ****ED by Samsung and never purchasing a phone from them again. DON'T BUY SAMSUNG THEY ARE ****. And don't buy Apple either because they are WORSE. Hopefully this helps someone hate Samsung a little more because I'm SCREWED.
LukeChristensen said:
So about 3 months ago i was playing ultimate Frisbee on a school trip with some friends with my S5 in my pocket. After about 30 minutes of play i heard my phone making a strange noise. I pulled it out and realized i was operating in Chinese on a screen that was seemingly a setup screen. All my phone data had been lost due to a factory reset. I was pissed but it wasn't that big of a deal because i had gotten the phone a week earlier. So I reinstalled the few apps I had, re downloaded my contacts, and didn't look into to it much. But today, four months later, I was doing the same exact thing, playing ultimate Frisbee with some friends, and it happened again. But this time I had a 32 GB SD card in that was nearly full of important pictures, videos, files, folders, documents and schoolwork. What I now know is those retards at Samsung made it so the phone thinks the SD card is part of the phone AND IT PERMANENTLY FORMATTED IT. I was am and still livid that those ****tards have no way to fix this problem what so ever. The phone has a defense mechanism that resets the phone after too many incorrect password attempts and the phone against my leg in my pocket did the ****ing trick! Me - "So there is no way to recover the data?" Dumb Samsung ****head - "No its a permanent reset that protects the phone from intruders". How Stupid do you have to be to create something like that, that can be triggered by so many other means than an intruder, AND HAVE NO WAY TO FIX IT. I am now ****ED by Samsung and never purchasing a phone from them again. DON'T BUY SAMSUNG THEY ARE ****. And don't buy Apple either because they are WORSE. Hopefully this helps someone hate Samsung a little more because I'm SCREWED.
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sucks.. but why didnt you disable that option in settings? and why dont you have backups on the cloud or pc?
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So I previously had the Indian 6.01 ROM on my SM-N910G but with Optus firmware finally coming back reverted back (factory reset before and after)
Everything has been ok except I have just discovered in Settings -> Backup and reset the Backup account is greyed out saying "No account is currently storing backed up data"
In google Drive where you to manage backups it says you need to wait after 24 hours to see any apps there after turning backup on. Well I turned this on Friday night nearly 36 hours ago
Googled this issue and suggestion is to turn off backup and reenable and reboot. Didnt Work. Another is to remove All Google accounts, reboot and re-add which I did. First account I added back in asked me to Backup I selected Yes. Did not work
Others say to delete data for Google Account and Google Transport and it is supposed to prompt you to select a Backup account but the option to Clear Data for both of these apps is greyed out
I deleted data for Google Play Services and Google Play Store and deleted Google Accounts again and this did seem to work asking me to select Backup account but after selecting, still greyed out and no account
Anyone else having issues.. I have seen some people say even when they fix the issue it comes back... It was working with Indian ROM. Last thing I want to do at this stage is factory restore takes me a good half a day to get my phone back to how I want it after that..
Cheers
I'm also having the same problem with my s6 active and Android 6.0.1. Tried factory reset but still didn't help
Thanks for letting me know but geez what have samsung gone and done now and ballsed up all the aussie MM phones or don't tell me this is on purpose due to some sort of legal requirement with apple again where they weren't allowed to let the gallery auto rotate pics due to an alleged design ripoff from ios
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anyone can check their phone please and confirm option is greyed out?? another user tells me same problem from them. Have reported to Samsung but they deny its an issue and want me to RMA my phone.. No thanks! I just need more people to confirm they have the issue so can show Samsung its a firmware bug that everyone is having!
If you have the issue please let me know and report to [email protected] attention: Blandon ta
(Samsung Galaxy NOTE 4 )is there any charging issue after last update 6.0.1 in July (slow charging ) i think it happed to my phone slow charging after last update ????
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
The same thing has been happening to me since my last update. I've just been ignoring it, but I'm on the same page as you. I refuse to get a Samsung account. Google already knows everything there is to know about me. I doubt there is anything to prevent that pop-up from appearing for now, but at least it's not any more intrusive than it already is.
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Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
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I have Samsung account, so I don't have any annoying popup regarding that, but I have used my phone without signing in to the account for at least a week and haven't seen any popups either. I am using US Unlocked S8
Ardrid said:
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this incredibly annoying issue. Using a T-Mobile S8 and ever since the last update I've been getting prompts to log in to my Samsung account. The window will always interrupt whatever you're doing when it decides to pop up, and is always waiting when you unlock the phone in the morning. I don't have a Samsung account, nor do I want one. I just want to be able to stop this from happening. Any thoughts?
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I was starting to think I was the only one. Google is no help, who's surprised. I used the 'contact samsung' field in the popup a few dozen times. First few times they told me to disable the app in settings, so I knew they wouldn't be any help. After a lot more emails they said to bring the phone to a samsung service center. There isn't one within 100 miles, and I'm not going to send it to one, so, another dead end. When 99.9 percent of sheeple are dying to sign up, samsung isn't going to accommodate the few who still remember privacy and free will. If I didn't require a smartphone for work I would use this thing for skeet practice. The 30 year old phone that is screwed to my kitchen wall still works fine.
Here's how
This is how I fixed it. Go to Settings/ Accounts/ accounts (again)/ Samsung Account/ About/ App Info/ Notifications/ uncheck. You're welcome
Many thanks for your solution friend.
It's back and can't be disabled in Oreo
I'll second that, updated to Oreo this morning, Samsung account nag is back and haven't found a solution to disable it yet.
I hope to explain my problem intelligently....here goes! In February Google put out 2 security patches. After installing the first update and as I was installing the second update I am fairly certain my phone got hijacked. From what I could gather it seemed my bank account along with my Google accounts and entire phone was "taken".
I no longer had admin rights and my settings changed. I had lots of areas/files grayed out and my internal storage is obselete. I have tons of screenshots that show what I believe are problems associated with whatever took place. My phone was bombarded with advertisements up until recently. My APN changed and often will lose connection all together and I can no longer edit, delete or add APNs. I believe this affects the root of phone so factory resets are in vain. My download mode is disabled so I cannot flash factory image. My phone constantly shuts down with battery at 50%, 60%, & 70%. My memory is at 23% and I am not able to address that issue because I cannot access my internal storage. I have seen what appears to be info gathered in reports in files that I am not allowed to open.
I have spent lots of time on the phone with Google and Verizon representatives who, of course, are no help. Google because phone is outside of warranty, and Verizon because they deem the problem to be Google's, AND IT IS GOOGLE'S IN MY OPINION because of the security breach allowed in between the 2 February updates. (Rant over!)
I paid $800 cash for this phone which was well worth it until this all took place. I am not in any position financially to replace my phone. Months back I bought a $70 phone and as crazy as it sounds when I signed into my Google accounts on that phone it appeared the problem followed my accounts to the new phone....maybe it was paranoia - maybe not! This basically took my life when it took my accounts and it has been a slow process in recovering accounts and moving forward.
Please, if anyone can help me get my phone back to its factory condition where I have access to my internal storage and admin rights and know my info is no longer compromised I would be so deeply appreciative. I am happy to provide any information necessary and have included a few items just in case they may be helpful to start with.
With my sincerest gratitude,
Slashbaylor98
You could try a factory reset but at that level of intrusion I would completely wipe the phone including internal. I'm not sure how to do that stock but if you unlock bootloader and install TWRP has the option. Then can download stock firmware then with fastboot flash latest start brand new slate. You would want to back up any important pictures, downloads, sms, documents etc.
Try making a new Google account on a PC not your phone and try logging in with the new google account and then do a full wipe. I hope this works, good luck
Hi,
I updated my Nokia 6 early yesterday morning, February 21st. The update was 1,7GB in total, don't know what it consisted of. The update came to my phone through standard automated update check, I got a notification to connect to WiFi, I did, the update downloaded and installed.
Apparently, it was the Android Pie update, though I didn't look that closely.
So, 100% stock ROM, no mods, fully official update method. No tricks. Connected to wall, 100% battery.
After the update the phone booted and asked to reboot to install operator updates. I'm not quite sure the exact wording of the message pop-up, but that's what it asked as far as I can remember. I agreed to reboot, the phone shut down, and never came back to life again.
It won't respond to any key presses. It's completely bricked.
I'm going to get it fixed in a shop, where it'll go to have its display changed anyway. I'm writing this here to ask, has anyone else had troubles with the update? It was rolled out in Finland apparently February 21st or 20th, or then I haven't reacted to the notification before. I'm quite unhappy with the state of the matters, since it seems to be the official update that bricked my phone.
So, anyone had any troubles with Android Pie update?
Mine bricked 2 days ago after the same Android pie update, 1.7 GB. I have tried flashing to no avail. Currently looking for ways to restore a bricked Nokia 6 TA-1021.
rwaithera said:
Mine bricked 2 days ago after the same Android pie update, 1.7 GB. I have tried flashing to no avail. Currently looking for ways to restore a bricked Nokia 6 TA-1021.
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According to the service personnel, a small wonder happened when they plugged in my TA-1021 - the device started right up. It's quite extraordinary claim, since my phone was connected to my charger when it shut down, and it was showing 100% battery.
I have no reason for this, only speculation. The only explanation I can come up with outside of some divine intervention is, that the phone did not shut down after all. Instead, it was stuck on some loop with screen off and buttons inoperative. When it finally ran out of battery, it responded right away when it received more power.
I did not try and flash my phone myself. Nor did they flash it in the shop. It wasn't necessary, the phone is now fully functional.
Maybe try to plug it in briefly and see what happens. If nothing, then just unplug it again and try another time tomorrow. Btw. HMD Global's chat support was very responsive, so I highly recommend contacting them if you suspect that your case was caused by the updater itself.
Mine didn't get bricked, but it started having issues with Google accounts. After the update, all apps which use my Google account to login had login errors & I couldn't add Google accounts onto the device. I manually synced the account, removed the account & tried to add it again (shows a "sorry something went wrong" message everytime I try to add an account), wiped the cache, even factory reset it, but nothing helped. I finally had to spend some time learning how to downgrade it & was able to add accounts on the device again. But after I updated my device with Android 9 (V6.12) again, the issue came back.
my all google apps arent working on TA-1000
mine is completely bricked. wont turn on at all. TA-1033.
Is there anyway to fix this?