Hey Guys,
Hopefully someone can help me out since I can't seem to find answers anywhere to my problem. I got an unlock code from T-Mobile but when I put a foreign sim into the phone is says "invalid sim, 0 attempts remain". I got the phone on craigslist so I'm guessing whoever had it before me tried unlocking it with the wrong code too many times. I have the right code now, how do I reset the attempts? I can't believe that the phone is hard locked and there isn't anything I can do about it. It's pretty frustrating so any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!!!
really???? no one knows anything about this issue?
So people here know how to put different operating systems on phones but no one knows if it is possible to reset the sim unlock counter?????
the phone is hard locked and (certainly in most cases) can now only be unlocked by using a hardware unlocker. (for most phones, you get three attempts via the keypad, and a further 10 via a hardware connection normally.)
thanks for the reply! what exactly does hardware unlocking mean? would i still need to use the code given to me by t-mobile?
speak to a phone shop (or better yet speak to t mobile first)
have you tried to restore the phone to factory(not a hard reset). I would try going to Tmobiles website and try to update the rom...
http://dl.htc.com/ruudownload/t-mobileUS/DeviceDownloads.aspx?pid=leo
^is for US phones I just did mine today because the guy that put android on it removed the unlock screen and I was unable to unlock the phone. And no one on here was able to answer any questions for me so don't feel bad.
Got it unlocked last night! turns out the sim card i was using was locked. i tried a different one and it let me key in the code. thanks for all the help!
now that the phone is unlocked would doing a hard reset lock it back up?
azmpire said:
now that the phone is unlocked would doing a hard reset lock it back up?
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good stuff. No, flashing / hard resets will not ever lock the phone now.
Hi
I got a Dell streak 5. Initially some one else logged with a different Google account in my Dell Streak and now that cannot signed out. Tried removing account but wasn't successful, its asking to reset the Phone to factory settings to remove the account info. I am afraid resetting the phone to factory settings will send streak to Locked state.. (Not sure of original status, I got it in unlocked state)...
Please advice..
Madhu
Go ahead and reset the phone, as resetting the phone does not affect the unlocked status of the phone. I have an unlocked Streak and have flashed the phone three times now. Once to restore 347 after my roommate decided she didn't want the Streak but wanted my Aria, once going from 347 to 351, and once restoring 351 after I accidentally removed too much stuff after the upgrade from 347 to 351. The Streak remained unlocked all three times.
My Streak was O2-locked. I got it unlocked by getting the unlock code from O2. Since then, I've factory-resetted and flashed to every single StreakDroid ROM out there! Never had a problem. Go ahead and reset it. Absolutely nothing to worry about!
I've got a Motorola Atrix 4G on 2.3.6, with 4.5.141
I used this method to unlock my Atrix's bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871.
At first all my files appeared as corrupted and could not be viewed, but they were all there.
Then remembered I had data encryption turned on, now I can't access the backup I made with mybackup app, nor access the internal storage's photos and documents.
I've read somewhere that the Razr would decrypt the data with the PIN, I've set the same passwords, tried enabling and disabling the encryption but had no luck...
I was wondering if there was a way to make the phone decrypt it and restore my backup...
I've found little to no info on this, but I can't be the only one with this problem...
were screwed ( it says unlocked but it actually isnt, i made a thread about this before. After i got my atrix warrantied , they gave me a newer model(piece of ****, excuse my language)that isnt actually unlockable. Does yours have 2 visible lights at the bottom of ur screen in daylight, and does ur screen keep popping up ? mabye im just unlucky
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were screwed ( it says unlocked but it actually isnt, i made a thread about this before. After i got my atrix warrantied , they gave me a newer model(piece of ****, excuse my language)that isnt actually unlockable. Does yours have 2 visible lights at the bottom of ur screen in daylight, and does ur screen keep popping up ? mabye im just unlucky
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Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
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Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
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Factory reset should do it. That's the only way I know to remove encryption.
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Factory reset should do it. That's the only way I know to remove encryption.
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Isn't factory reset supposed to delete everything?
I want to decrypt my data, so I can see my photos, documents and backup, does factory reset enables the normal usage of original files?
I need to keep my data intact, so deleting it won't help me get it back.
I've found an interesting information on encryption on Motorla Razr: forums.motorola.com/posts/b027ce4327
But unfortunately it is bad news, and something I hope is not the case in the Atrix...
I've used a data recovery program: Testdisk
And found a lot of files with criptokey extension...If the encryption is based on a key per file, I'll just drop the phone in boiling water, or sell it...
Other thought is that the key is somehow related to the bootloader...It would be good if I could roll back to the original bootloader...Or even use my time machine and stop myself from encrypting my precious data...
I need help on how encryption is implemented on Atrix!
Found an interesting document:
developer.motorola.com/docs/using_the_advanced_encryption_standard_in_android
The problem is that it's app related...
I was wondering, if the Atrix uses the fingerprint to generate the key used to encrypt...
No one knows anything of Atrix's data encryption system?
Maybe it's not AES256...
developer.motorola.com/docs/writing-fingerprint-enabled-apps/
This means that the fingerprint does truly participate in key generation, also that the key will never be the same due to fingerprint images stored will never be the same, meaning that its impossible to re-generate the same key.
Unfortunately this does not talk about location of generated key, nor the name of the key or any useful details about encryption...
Hope is fading away, maybe I should just format everything...Why did I unlock bootloader...Damn app2sd!
vorith said:
Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
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Can you install roms though?mine sits at the dual core screen and some guy told me the newer atrixes were perma locked
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Can you install roms though?mine sits at the dual core screen and some guy told me the newer atrixes were perma locked
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Oh, you must be talking about the "Atrix HD" with encrypted bootloader.
Then you're in the wrong forum, this is about the "Atrix 4G", the first version of the Atrix, which can be unlocked.
The only suggestion I got for you is to try to restore the bootloader, or wait forever till they release a way to unlock it...
www.themorningdump.com/2012/07/11/a...oviding-user-unlock-method-is-motorolas-goal/
I searched the web and unfortunately there's almost no info about restoring the bootloader of the "Atrix HD". Sorry.
vorith said:
Oh, you must be talking about the "Atrix HD" with encrypted bootloader.
Then you're in the wrong forum, this is about the "Atrix 4G", the first version of the Atrix, which can be unlocked.
The only suggestion I got for you is to try to restore the bootloader, or wait forever till they release a way to unlock it...
www.themorningdump.com/2012/07/11/a...oviding-user-unlock-method-is-motorolas-goal/
I searched the web and unfortunately there's almost no info about restoring the bootloader of the "Atrix HD". Sorry.
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I think what he thought was also the atrix 4g,because some guy who send his atrix to the service center, got his atrix locked and cannot unlocked by using existing method...
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I think what he thought was also the atrix 4g,because some guy who send his atrix to the service center, got his atrix locked and cannot unlocked by using existing method...
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yeah, i sent my atrix in, and got back a NEW atrix, but its locked and its made out of **** materials. I used the cmd looking unlock (petes or something), but the standard wouldnt work, so i used the fix bootloader option and now it says unlocked when i boot it up, but after installing a rom through CWM, it just stays at the boot screen. Is there an alternate unlocking method that you guys can help me with? when i got it back, it has android ver.: 2.3.6, build 4.5.141, and kernel 2.6.32.9
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yeah, i sent my atrix in, and got back a NEW atrix, but its locked and its made out of **** materials. I used the cmd looking unlock (petes or something), but the standard wouldnt work, so i used the fix bootloader option and now it says unlocked when i boot it up, but after installing a rom through CWM, it just stays at the boot screen. Is there an alternate unlocking method that you guys can help me with? when i got it back, it has android ver.: 2.3.6, build 4.5.141, and kernel 2.6.32.9
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Maybe you should try another rom, because if its said unlocked at the boot screen, then your atrix is truly unlocked.
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Notes on the implementation of encryption in Android 3.0 said:
The actual encryption used for the filesystem for first release is 128 AES with CBC and ESSIV:SHA256. The master key is encrypted with 128 bit AES via calls to the openssl library.
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Found this info here:http://source.android.com/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html
I've tried opening some encrypted files with notepad, and all of them have an interesting header containing almost same parameters...
I still have not found more information about exact Motorola Atrix 4G's encryption...
There have only been a couple of reports of this "new" unlockable bootloader. Given the number of posts we see from people who have not successfully unlocked their bootloader via proven methods and have then unlocked once they have asked for help, I am inclined to believe that there is no new unlockable bootloader, and that there are instead issues with failed unlocks which people are putting down to a new bootloader rather than what could quite possible be just plain old "operator error"! Seems there was an initial few threads on various forums by the same people which has transpired into this theory. I dunno.............but I find it hard to believe that a chosen few are receiving a new bootloader on an old phone model when so many are returning phones daily and receiving repaired phones which are then summarily unlocked again.
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There have only been a couple of reports of this "new" unlockable bootloader. Given the number of posts we see from people who have not successfully unlocked their bootloader via proven methods and have then unlocked once they have asked for help, I am inclined to believe that there is no new unlockable bootloader, and that there are instead issues with failed unlocks which people are putting down to a new bootloader rather than what could quite possible be just plain old "operator error"! Seems there was an initial few threads on various forums by the same people which has transpired into this theory. I dunno.............but I find it hard to believe that a chosen few are receiving a new bootloader on an old phone model when so many are returning phones daily and receiving repaired phones which are then summarily unlocked again.
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Ummm...Seems wasssabi5's problem was somehow passed as mine...
Here is my problem: All of my Atrix's backup files are ENCRYPTED, including all the photos I've taken and all the documents I've written in it...
It happened because I unlocked the bootloader without knowing that Data Encryption was turned on...
I guess the master key got destroyed and a new one was made...Making it impossible to decrypt the old files...Just like encryption on Blackberry devices
can't factory reset = lock pattern + unknown gmail + "*** LOCKED ***" bootloader
First off, let me clear the obvious: this phone isn't stolen. I purchased it a few days ago off of eBay (item #271070275773) and took it to Verizon who verified that it hadn't been reported stolen. The LCD was smashed so the previous owner sold it for parts and was unable to reset/un-lock the pattern. (And the seller says they don't know it.)
I fixed the LCD/digitizer and discovered this infuriating pattern lock. I assumed that, like my other Thunderbolt, I could simply do a factory reset or throw some PG05IMG.zip onto it, or SOMETHING... but nothing I've tried so far works. (That is to say, it just does a normal boot to the lock screen -- or goes into an equally infuriating reboot loop that just repeatedly ends at the green-on-white HTC logo.) I assume it has everything to do with the fact that, at the top of the "skateboarding" screen, it says in capital pink letters: *** LOCKED *** -- please note it doesn't say "security warning" as I've seen in most of my searching. But then again, I could be totally completely wrong.
Can anyone shed some light on my situation? I'm new to modding Android devices, but am good friends with Google when I know what exact terms to ask him.
I think you would need to take it a step further than just a factory reset as that would leave behind some system information such as security. It sounds like you would need to completely wipe everything and flash a rom but to do that you would need to enable USB debugging which you cannot because of the pin. I have heard there are ways to get past it but I don't know how many retries you would get in order to do that.
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I think this might help you out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310014
Basically, you use adb and fastboot to flash a full RUU which will completely unroot, wipe, destroy everything you've done. The post has a lot of information and some seems a little confusing, but follow along and I think you will be OK.