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Need Help with Password after Hard Reset

I'm desparate, please help!!!!
I had to do a hard reset after failing to Root my A500, that's a long story.
After the Hard Reset it has come up with a APKInstaller (All pre-install processes complete). I click OK and then it has asked me to enter your password (with the Android logo on the left had side.
I have tried all the passwords I can think of, including my Gmail password, and it just says that it is wrong.
Can someone please put me out of my misery and help????
Feel free to mock me, as long as you come up with a solution that doesnt involve taking the device back to get fixed.
Thanks in advanced

had this happened before when i tried to do the factory reset through the method of HOLDING DOWN POWER + RIGHT VOLUME BUTTON (in landscape mode) + SWITCHING THE ROTATION LOCK BUTTON. easy solution to this would perform the factory reset one more time and it'll go away

Having this issue too..
Ok.. simplified version of long (2-wk) history:
1) Initially 3.0.1 device "bricked" attempting to do a direct 3.0.1 to 3.2.1 update.. bad move and stupid of me.
2) Successfully unbricked using EUUs_SBK_Acer_A500_1.016.05_COM_GEN1
3) 3.0.1 rooted, custom recovery, and updated to a 3.2.1 stock with root.. and stable for about 5 days.
4) I installed ES Task Manager and played with some settings. Shut down the device for the day (early afternoon).
5) Restarted device, boot, and was asked for a Password. -- One that I never set. None of the account (google) passwords that were on the device worked.
6) Being still somewhat fresh, I did the "unbrick" flash again and proceeded with root, recovery, and update again... stable for about 3 days.. before the Password prompt returned.
I'm now at the state that I've attempted multiple ROMs.. there is *something* not getting wiped. Now, even when I use the EUU "unbrick", the first boot is fine.. as soon as I restart though, Password.
Massive frustration.. but I'm hoping someone here might be of some help on this.
I figure the worst case.. I literally break the thing and have to use my "accident" warranty.. but I'd really rather not do that.
Any ideas?

MoonHowler said:
Ok.. simplified version of long (2-wk) history:
1) Initially 3.0.1 device "bricked" attempting to do a direct 3.0.1 to 3.2.1 update.. bad move and stupid of me.
2) Successfully unbricked using EUUs_SBK_Acer_A500_1.016.05_COM_GEN1
3) 3.0.1 rooted, custom recovery, and updated to a 3.2.1 stock with root.. and stable for about 5 days.
4) I installed ES Task Manager and played with some settings. Shut down the device for the day (early afternoon).
5) Restarted device, boot, and was asked for a Password. -- One that I never set. None of the account (google) passwords that were on the device worked.
6) Being still somewhat fresh, I did the "unbrick" flash again and proceeded with root, recovery, and update again... stable for about 3 days.. before the Password prompt returned.
I'm now at the state that I've attempted multiple ROMs.. there is *something* not getting wiped. Now, even when I use the EUU "unbrick", the first boot is fine.. as soon as I restart though, Password.
Massive frustration.. but I'm hoping someone here might be of some help on this.
I figure the worst case.. I literally break the thing and have to use my "accident" warranty.. but I'd really rather not do that.
Any ideas?
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Do a clean flash directly to 3.2.1 rooted. Then don't install anything for a few days and see if your problem is gone. It should be fixed.

I've never had any problems like yours. I always use CWM to do full WIPES + FORMATS. I have used windows Directly to do about 3-4 Flashes that way. About 20-30 Flashed ROM's thru CWM Recovery (20-30 -not ever cuz of problems).
Best i can say is Next Time do it THRU CWM Recovery and WIPE (3) + FORMAT (4) = 7 commands to say "YES" to before Installing a CUSTOM ROM. I've messed arround a lot and have hard time BRICKING or having any messed up ROM INSTALLS.

amateurandroid said:
I'm desparate, please help!!!!
I had to do a hard reset after failing to Root my A500, that's a long story.
After the Hard Reset it has come up with a APKInstaller (All pre-install processes complete). I click OK and then it has asked me to enter your password (with the Android logo on the left had side.
I have tried all the passwords I can think of, including my Gmail password, and it just says that it is wrong.
Can someone please put me out of my misery and help????
Feel free to mock me, as long as you come up with a solution that doesnt involve taking the device back to get fixed.
Thanks in advanced
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No problem, but, I have to "mock" you a little Because in over 350+ flashings for testings, etc, I have never had this happen, nor have I ever had to use the "pinhole" (knock on wood)
And that "password".... hint, there is no password that will work. The issue, is that you have a big mess internally when booting, and the OS doesn't know what else to do, so it gives you that dialog.
And you're not the first person to have this happen to.
My question, is WTH did you do to get yourself into this mess? And the reason I ask, is that others have done the same thing. So perhaps it would be best to give the "Long Story". This may be useful to others and serve as a reference point.
TimmyDean has a tool for unbricking devices. From what I've seen, it works well 90% of the time. So you should listen to him. There's also one other unbrick master, but haven't seen him around for awhile.

pattern passcode lockout issue

Hi all. had an issue while trying to load up LinageOS last night. Was having trouble with keeping root. Seem to have solved that by using Magisk 11.6 and the SUaddon rather than any superuser version.
Anyhow as part of this i went back to a TWRP backup of which i had 3 different versions (stock and lineage) available being a bit ocd with backups. They all flashed ok, but for ALL of them, when the phone booted it kept telling me had wrong pattern when i tried to unlock. Not good. Thought only way back was to factory reset and do all the app loading and setup again.
After a bit of searching found this thread and this post.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69189392&postcount=65
Worked a treat.
The other methods didn't and i suspect are obsolete.
Anyow, posted for info if anyone else runs into this problem. Success dependent on having working TWRP and being able to boot to that as you need to use the File Manager capability in TWRP.
Seeyahs!

Same thing happened to me last week, when I tried lineage, found the answer on HTC forum,.
So avoid that from happening , before you make a backup, unlock all securities( pin, password, fingerprint) then make a backup, next time you restore your backup, it will boot without any issues.

ta for that. will try.

Fingerprint scanner verification mode not working (?)

Hello guys !
I was rocking OOS 4.5.3 with TWRP and root all fine, and I tried some dualboot stuff that I saw here on XDA (plot twist, don't try it) and then I ran into issues
I managed to reinstall the rom fine, but at the reboot, my fingerprint sensor wasn't picking up my fingers
I found out that when I try to register a fingerprint, it works fine, untill the last step where it stop picking my finger (not even vibrates)
I also noticed that it's impossible to delete a stored fingerprint
Any ideas ?

GMX1PT said:
Hello guys !
I was rocking OOS 4.5.3 with TWRP and root all fine, and I tried some dualboot stuff that I saw here on XDA (plot twist, don't try it) and then I ran into issues
I managed to reinstall the rom fine, but at the reboot, my fingerprint sensor wasn't picking up my fingers
I found out that when I try to register a fingerprint, it works fine, untill the last step where it stop picking my finger (not even vibrates)
I also noticed that it's impossible to delete a stored fingerprint
Any ideas ?
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On man I'm in totally the same situation with you! I tried that dualboot too and stuck in boot screen, so i flashed the original rom zip and managed to boot well but the fingerprint isn't working any more......:crying:waiting for solutions

Okay, now that I woke up I will try to do a data wipe, I'll tell you about it, please do tell me if you find something

I'm also unable to activate wifi

Sounds like a good question for the dual boot thread.
If I remember right from previous threads about dual boot on other devices is, you should delete your original fingerprint or set it up as no lock before doing all the stuff with dual boot. I might be wrong.

ab7casper said:
Sounds like a good question for the dual boot thread.
If I remember right from previous threads about dual boot on other devices is, you should delete your original fingerprint or set it up as no lock before doing all the stuff with dual boot. I might be wrong.
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Well, can't see where it is listed in the instructions, but thankfully this issue is nothing a full wipe can't fix

GMX1PT said:
Well, can't see where it is listed in the instructions, but thankfully this issue is nothing a full wipe can't fix
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It's not, it was just a user having that issue on a Nexus 6P. Reset should fix. Set it up without a lock on it, then you should be able to set up fingerprints for each rom.
Thinking about. It, that sounds like a lot of hassle if you just want to try out different roms quickly.

GMX1PT said:
I'm also unable to activate wifi
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I did not do this dual boot but I ran into WiFi not activating (endless searching for a WiFi access point), but I was able to fix it. Your probably uninterested in how I got into the situation but I fixed it with a previous nandroid backup done with one of the earlier versions of TWRP. Here are the steps that recovered WiFi:
Using TWRP, advance wipe Dalvik & Cache
Restore from a nandroid backup (OOS v4.5.2 in this case) ONLY system & /System
Reboot into the system and ignore TWRP's no OS warning
Using TWRP, advance wipe Dalvik & Cache
Reboot back into TWRP recovery and flash the Full v4.5.5 OTA file (~1.6GB) AND flash root (e.g. SuperSU)
Clear Dalvik&Cache and reboot into the system
After I did that everything return back to normal including the WiFI issue. The fingerprint scanner is working normally and I never lost any data what so ever.

PIN changed, can't get in now

I got a notification for system update. When I rebooted, my tablet started up in TWRP. The update finished (I don't Know if it was successful or not). After I rebooted into system, my usual PIN is not working, do I can't get access. I'm away from home and away from my PC for a couple of weeks, so I'm limited in what I can do.
Does anybody know how to get a PIN to work? Looks like TWRP has been replaced with regular recovery on partition 1, but I have TWRP on partition 2 also. Is there a way to get into TWRP on partition 2 without a desktop PC?

I have the same problem, after the system update yesterday my old pin does not work anymore. What could I do?

So, before you updated, was your tablet rooted? Did the update use TWRP or the stock recovery? Did you have a pin set before the update?

before the update I use PIN and fingerprint reader, device was not rooted.
The update was offered by the device and ran normally.
Now my PIN does not work anymore. I do not have an "ok" button
when entering the PIN and I do not remember if there was one before?

My pin was reset after I updated, but I thought it was because I had replaced the stock recovery with TWRP. I've heard that there's a bug in TWRP that can mess up your pin. Now it looks like the pin problem is happening with stock updates, too. I'm surprised that other people haven't reported it.
If you had TWRP installed and you were able to boot into it, there's a way that you can use the TWRP file manager to delete the pin lock files. In your case, you will probably have to do what I ended up doing. I copied into Huawei eRecover and reset the tablet. That means it was wiped and I had to restore my apps and settings. You could try to get in touch with Huawei support first and see if they have a solution, since it appears that a stock update caused the problem. Please post back again if you find a solution.

HELP: Encryption Unsuccessful TB-X104F

I i had to reflash the firmware the correct one TB-X104F_S000024_180930_ROW_DCC. Anyway it wasn't booting at all before i flashed. Now it boots, shows the logo etc and constantly says Encryption unsuccessful!, so i reset it and factory reset it but nothing changes.
I have no idea where else to go, bootloader is locked and all i can do is flash the firmware. Would there be a way to remove this from the files within the firmware?. It seems like android is there in the background but i can't get away from that encryption unsuccessful screen!
Sorry if none of this makes sense.

Yo. I got the same tablet bro. Been trying to figure out a custom recovery for her. A stock ROM would be great to have and I haven't been able to find one anywhere. Might I inquire as to where you found yours? It would be a huge relief to know I can fix it if I break it lol.

encryption
If you download the Lenovo MOTO smart assistant from Lenovo support it has a resque option. I also used that to root my tb-x104f. It downloads the original everything and if you take the boot image from the file it downloads and replace it in one that has been modified from magisk it will rescue it and you will have root also thatd what I did with mine

same problem here, reflashed with stock rom. and not resloved

frankieuk said:
I i had to reflash the firmware the correct one TB-X104F_S000024_180930_ROW_DCC. Anyway it wasn't booting at all before i flashed. Now it boots, shows the logo etc and constantly says Encryption unsuccessful!, so i reset it and factory reset it but nothing changes.
I have no idea where else to go, bootloader is locked and all i can do is flash the firmware. Would there be a way to remove this from the files within the firmware?. It seems like android is there in the background but i can't get away from that encryption unsuccessful screen!
Sorry if none of this makes sense.
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Did you fix this issue?
I am having the same problem.
Thanks

Same problem here (my error reads "Decryption unsuccesful", but I think it's the same as yours).
After a few tries, I believe that it is a problem with the internet connection. After the factory reset, if I skip the wifi connection step, it starts normally. And it is completely usable. I can load pdf documents or apks by the usb from a computer and it runs correctly. But whenever I try to set the wifi connection, it updates something and it causes the tablet that the next time I turn it off, I find the error on the picture when turning on. It asks for a password and no matter which password you enter, then it delivers this message.
In resume, right now it is a completely functional tablet if you NEVER connect it to the internet and load anything you need via usb or bluetooth.
I tried to reset it with Lenovo Smart Assistant, but the result is the same.
I am looking for custom roms to try if it's something about the stock rom, but I haven't found any. Can anyone reccomend me a rom for Lenovo E10 X104F 2GB?

Solution: (Worked for me)
Format Data as F2FS in TWRP. (Advanced Wipe)
Then reboot and wait.