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Quick question. Unsure if anyone else has experience their Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 locking and unlocking itself. For me, it literally just started a couple of days ago and i've notice that my phone will lock itself up when its changing between WiFi, 4G or 3G. Even when dropping the wifi connection, it'll lock itself up. Even more annoying is when you go in to input the password, the screen will turn on when the home or standby button is pushed, flash and turn back off.
I haven't found any solutions on the web. Need help please!
Thanks yall

Issue while enabling/disabling private mode

Whenever I try to enable private mode on my Samsung S5 it asks for the finger print to enable. I get a slight vibration about the match confirmation. But waiting for more than 10 minutes it doesn't activate. Only thing I'm left to do is to reboot my phone and then it works. But again after few hours it does behave the same. I'm fed up of constantly rebooting.
Sometimes i just can't use the private mode function as if the function itself is disabled (the enable/disable toggle is grey in color rather white).
So after rebooting, I can enable private mode (and now i do not turn it off). But somehow it manages to turn it off by itself and when i try to tap on the private mode quick toggle by notifications window I see this, "Unable to disable private mode while moving items to private", when actually nothing is being transferred.
Only after the reboot it works. Am I have to reboot constantly for such things to work?

This is my second thread which went unanswered after registering! Well okay!

If anyone comes across same issue can go to Service center directly. Nothing you can do yourself as i tried every possible thing from my side. Anyways they re-installed the firmware and the issue has gone.

Why didn't you just flash the firmware yourself? Or factory reset
Plenty of guides here on how to do it

I'm a newbie and wanted help before going to service centre. But no one replied and thus couldn't do it myself!
As far as factory reset is concerned I had done that already but still it persisted.

No-one would have given you any extra info than is already here in the S5 forums, a simple case of reading would have saved you time and effort taking it to the service centre
It literally takes less than 5 minutes to flash a stock ROM, with about 2 clicks

Your best bet would be flashing a stock firmware, and report back if it has fixed your problem.
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*Detection* said:
No-one would have given you any extra info than is already here in the S5 forums, a simple case of reading would have saved you time and effort taking it to the service centre
It literally takes less than 5 minutes to flash a stock ROM, with about 2 clicks
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Thank you! Next time I would take some effort reading the forums rather than visiting Service centre.

One question, Is flashing stock rom downloaded from sammobile or similar over kies/smartswitch the same as the service centre guys do?

sammy808 said:
One question, Is flashing stock rom downloaded from sammobile or similar over kies/smartswitch the same as the service centre guys do?
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Most probably, yes.
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Screen Lock on S7 Edge - Bypass Help

Hello, I'm stuck with my s7 edge screen lock, I've always used my fingerprint scanner but when configured enterprise email account into the cellphone it asked me to set a PIN (weeks ago) and since then I just used fingerprint to unlock it, however yesterday my batery ran out and its asking for this PIN now. I don't have the samsung account to unlock it and ADM from google wont set a temporary password as "there is one already in place"
1. My phone is not rooted
2. I don't have any recovery tool installed
Is there any zip or bypass up to date that I could flash via SD card to remove the lock screen, please help

Short answer - no. You'd need to factory reset the device or enter the pin.
If security was that easy to bypass, it wouldn't really be security.

NJ72 said:
Short answer - no. You'd need to factory reset the device or enter the pin.
If security was that easy to bypass, it wouldn't really be security.
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There are tons of tutorials of screen unlocking and even apps that you just plug into the USB and click "screen unlock bypass" thing is I did not find any for S7 Edge, that is my question, no need to reply with such unexplored answer.

jackzinh said:
There are tons of tutorials of screen unlocking and even apps that you just plug into the USB and click "screen unlock bypass" thing is I did not find any for S7 Edge, that is my question, no need to reply with such unexplored answer.
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#1 - There may well be lots of apps which claim to do this. If it was actually that simple, why would you have a screen lock in the first place? These are snake-oil type apps
#2 - Any apps you may have found that do work probably (almost certainly) don't work beyond Android 4.4 as security became a much larger focus for the OS as a whole
#3 - just because I haven't cited sources doesn't mean that I haven't conducted previous research. I had an issue where my Google Pixel C would not authenticate with the pattern key. I could not bypass it and had to extract all the data I could using AirDroid before factory resetting the device
It wasn't an 'unexplored' answer, it was merely telling it to you straight rather than trying to sugar coat it. Remind me not to answer your question next time. :good:

It doesn't mean that it's not the answer you seek, it's not the truth. There's a reason why people are told to remember passwords, and if their memories suck, they should write it down somewhere.
Newer phones are more securely locked than older phones now precisely for the reasons that Android is being made more secure due to demands for use in corporate and government settings. as far as I know none of those hacks works for anything higher than Android 6.0, and the S7 launches with that Android version.
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I'm in the same boat, took out my S7 after a couple of months, and do not remember the password anymore. The only saving grace is, it still connects to my home wifi network. I'm able to use Android Device managr to locate it, make it ring, send a lock meesage to it. I've logged into my samsung account, it lists the S7 edge as one of my devices but, it is unable to locate the phone. I may not have setup Samsung findmyphone on the device after I reset it t factory default in the past, which is why it is unable to locate it.
The phone is turned on, and connected to my home WiFi - but, is obviosuly not being located by Samsung Fund My Phone. There is NO option to reset, recover password, it have bumped upto 60 minutes wait to try again as I;ve entered the password unsuccessfully multiple times.
All the guides I've read on the net are completely useless, they all either require rooting, which I dont have as I had corporate email setup on it and the IT policy woulndt allow rooted phones ot be used, or they default to hard resetting the device. Some suggest after multiple failed attemps, the option to reset password should show up on the lock screen, but, all I get it, please try again in 60 minutes.
The phone is legitimitely mine, Android Device Manager finds it under my gmail account, but, Samsung doesnt seem to talk to it - is there any option avaialble?. I really don't want to reset the phone. I've emailed Samsung support as well, but sentiment on the net is, they're no apple when it comes to support.

Android normally secures your device by demanding a PIN, pattern, or full password. Your phone isn't useless if you forget the unlock code — you can bypass lock screen on Samsung S7 Edge.
As Google tightens security, this has become more difficult on modern versions of Android. But there's always a way to make your phone usable again, as long as you remember your Google account's username and its password.
Older versions of Android — Android 4.4 KitKat and older — have an integrated way to bypass your pattern, PIN, or other password if you forget it. Google removed this feature in Android 5.0 Lollipop, so you'll have to use a different method if you have a device with a newer version of Android.
To find this feature, first enter an incorrect pattern or PIN five times at the lock screen. You'll see a "Forgot pattern," "forgot PIN," or "forgot password" button appear. Tap it. You'll be prompted to enter the username and password of the Google account associated with your Android device.

Thanks Adeliz, however...
RizSher said:
All the guides I've read on the net are completely useless, they all either require rooting, which I dont have as I had corporate email setup on it and the IT policy woulndt allow rooted phones ot be used, or they default to hard resetting the device. Some suggest after multiple failed attemps, the option to reset password should show up on the lock screen, but, all I get it, please try again in 60 minutes.
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Security Bug!?

Hi everyone.
This morning I woke up and about to answer my text but once I tried to unlock the phone by the fingerprint, it won't respond and shows the message "The fingerprint sensor is not responding, try again later." So I decide to unlock by the pattern which is a simple 4 dots pattern that I've been using for more than 6 years so it can't be wrong. But the device said "Incorrect pattern" for 5 times until it lock itself for 30 seconds.
As far as I've known I didn't update or install any suspicious apps either. No Anti-Virus, No Cleaner No root and anything just FB and some games that are unharm. I didn't change the security settings for like years since it was already safe. I haven't set the smart lock or anything either. The way to unlock my phone is only fingerprint and pattern only. No tricks.
I've manage to unlock by restart the phone on the lock screen and manage to get in by that pattern that I've been using and the fingerprint sensor came back to work.
My question is what can cause this to happened? Is it a bug?
Side Note:
Scenario 1: My aunt's Galaxy Note 8 happened as well. But my aunt's phone doesn't even have a password lock or fingerprint set up because she doesn't leave the house much and she got nothing to lose on her phone. One day she install a mobile banking app and the bank staff asked her to put set up a lock screen security so she set to the password that she can remember and writes it down on the note in case she forgets.
When she came back home and she tries to unlock the phone it said incorrect password many times I even try to fix it for her but no luck until we solve it by unlocking it with Find My Mobile.
Scenario 2: My colleague's Galaxy J7 also encountered the security problem where he can't use his own password to unlock his phone but that's because he install some phony app called "Samsung Max" which is not made by Samsung but he thought it was the Samsung's app. I don't know what the app can do but it seems that it some sort of cleaner app. I've read the comment in the Play Store and saw that someone was like "Thanks a lot Samsung (implies Samsung) this app save me more space" and the dev replies back like "Thanks a lot" (won't denied that he wasn't an actual Samsung company)
Can apps even change the security settings on people phones these days? I've haven't visit XDA for many years since when I was having fun rooting my Galaxy S2.
What's your opinion?

Happened to my sister's note 4 before, and since then she don't use fingerprints in fear she gets locked out. Use Samsung find my device and unlock the phone. It didn't happen to her since then (around 2 4 years)

Caller ID and spam protection turns off (Pie)

If I restart the phone (whether cache and Dalvik was deleted or not) is on. As soon as the screen goes off for the first time (30 sec) and I turn it back on, the controller is off.
If I turn on the knob now, it will stay on forever as I want it to. Does anyone have an explanation?

bininga59 said:
If I restart the phone (whether cache and Dalvik was deleted or not) is on. As soon as the screen goes off for the first time (30 sec) and I turn it back on, the controller is off.
If I turn on the knob now, it will stay on forever as I want it to. Does anyone have an explanation?
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My Spam and Caller ID protection is also turning itself off.
Device S8+ G955FD ZTO, Rom DBT.

Same issue on S10. Must be a fault in one ui

Same exact thing on my S10+. What an annoying bug!

Same thing on my Note8, Definitely a stupid bug! I was going crazy trying to fix it...

Me too. Also, new phone app automatically goes full screen - can't get out of it until you hang up on the call. I noticed that, because you can't try to swipe up to report or block spam calls.
Any ideas?

Same on Galaxy S8
Hi guys,
I'm having the same issue now that I updated my Galaxy S8 to Android Pie / One UI,
Does anyone have found a solution?

orion0101 said:
Hi guys,
I'm having the same issue now that I updated my Galaxy S8 to Android Pie / One UI,
Does anyone have found a solution?
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Remove Android Pie

The bug has been fixed with the new update.

Nope not fixed yet on my Note 8 in Canada anyway (n950w). Samsung has been slacking this year.

Still having issues on my Note8 950U with the July patch. Anyone else still having the Caller ID and SPAM protection turning off after reboot?