My friends phone got locked after his younger brother entered several unsuccessful pattern attemps. The phone asks for the google user pass but after entering says wrong user/pass.. He is on ICS (Omega ROM). The wifi was off, so is there any way the wifi can be turned on? The screen doesnt let the user do anything (cant pull the notification menu etc)
I flashed the ROM again but still same message..
I know I can wipe all data and it'll be fixed, but the friend doesnt want to lose his data (lots of pics/videos) etc. So someone help please
the phone is rooted btw
Wipe & tell your friend he's learned a very valuable lesson about making regular backups (given they take all of 5 minutes & require maybe half a dozen button presses).
hdaackda said:
My friends phone got locked after his younger brother entered several unsuccessful pattern attemps. The phone asks for the google user pass but after entering says wrong user/pass.. He is on ICS (Omega ROM). The wifi was off, so is there any way the wifi can be turned on? The screen doesnt let the user do anything (cant pull the notification menu etc)
I flashed the ROM again but still same message..
I know I can wipe all data and it'll be fixed, but the friend doesnt want to lose his data (lots of pics/videos) etc. So someone help please
the phone is rooted btw
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
after few unsuccessful attempts the phone gets locked for 30 mins only i guess... so leave the phone for 30 mins in some corner n then try the correct pattern again
hdaackda said:
My friends phone got locked after his younger brother entered several unsuccessful pattern attemps. The phone asks for the google user pass but after entering says wrong user/pass.. He is on ICS (Omega ROM). The wifi was off, so is there any way the wifi can be turned on? The screen doesnt let the user do anything (cant pull the notification menu etc)
I flashed the ROM again but still same message..
I know I can wipe all data and it'll be fixed, but the friend doesnt want to lose his data (lots of pics/videos) etc. So someone help please
the phone is rooted btw
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
data on Internal SD doesn't get deleted with factory wipe. Only sms will be lost. Contacts are backed up in google accounts.
Thanks. Wiped and installed the Rom again had the backup of sms and contacts. He is happy none of his files got deleted
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
ctg60000 said:
after few unsuccessful attempts the phone gets locked for 30 mins only i guess... so leave the phone for 30 mins in some corner n then try the correct pattern again
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WRONG. The phone doesn't just lock itself for 30 minutes -it's gonna stay locked forever unless you enter your Google account's password. It happened to a friend of mine (I was the one who locked it) and because he didn't remember his password his phone remained locked for 3 weeks until he finally remembered the password. During that time he could only receive and answer calls but nothing else.
Related
So I have had this issue with my phone today where I couldn't seem to get passed the Too many pattern attempts screen.
After trying all my combinations of e-mail and passwords, I was unable to access my phone. As a result, I attempted to do a hard reset (the pressing of both volume rockers and then trying to reset it in that recovery mode).
I did so, wiping all my data, but the too many pattern attempts screen remained. So as a result, I booted up Odin and downloaded the stock versions of the Samsung Fascinate's ROM and proceeded to reflash (or what I believe to be reflashing, I simply followed the directions found in the stickies).
That all said and done, my phone still remains in the too many pattern attempts lock.
I've checked the similar posts on a couple of websites, but was unable to find a situation where all of these fixes did not work.
Thank you!
No replies yet, so I am just going to throw this out there on the off chance that it *might* actually work.
The "complete voodoo lagfix removal" uninstall.zip CWM flash seems to be working as a cure-all for just about whatever may ail your phone, whether you actually *have* voodoo or not...
I would check that out in the OP of this thread.
Download the Voodoo Uninstall on your PC. Copy it to your SDcard (if you don't have a computer that you can put the card in after pulling it out of your phone, try using adb to push it to the phone)
Boot into stock recovery, and flash "update.zip" to get into CWM recovery.
Flash that voodoo uninstall zip using CWM.
I really hope this helps. (Just in case it happens to me. )
Let us know!
I work for flextronics. we see this all the time. it's a known issue that the lock screen doesn't reset with a factory wipe. just call the phone, answer and press the home screen button. it's what we do in store
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
This is more than likely living in /dbdata . You can wipe that by doing a privacy wipe in settings (requires access to the phone), or flash CWM via odin, and then when in recovery, rm -r /dbdata/ and reboot.
If the phone-call / home button thing else_where posted works, obviously go that route, then do a privacy wipe.
namebrandon said:
This is more than likely living in /dbdata . You can wipe that by doing a privacy wipe in settings (requires access to the phone), or flash CWM via odin, and then when in recovery, rm -r /dbdata/ and reboot.
If the phone-call / home button thing else_where posted works, obviously go that route, then do a privacy wipe.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you will more than likely need to mount the /dbdata partition r/w before you can delete the data. This is covered in the Voodoo removal thread (which I had the joy of doing).
martian21 said:
you will more than likely need to mount the /dbdata partition r/w before you can delete the data. This is covered in the Voodoo removal thread (which I had the joy of doing).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good point!
mkdir /dbdata
mount -t rfs -o nosuid,nodev,check=no /dev/block/stl10 /dbdata
else_where said:
I work for flextronics. we see this all the time. it's a known issue that the lock screen doesn't reset with a factory wipe. just call the phone, answer and press the home screen button. it's what we do in store
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You work for Flextronics ???? Didn't Verizon end their contract with them for all regions already ????
working in an A class store. allot of the philly market and north east stores still have techs. besides or sales people are helpless. like every time with a cellbrite is their first time
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
Hey guys thanks for all the help,
The calling of the phone didn't work. Tried it, but it kept giving me corrupt errors so I wasn't able to access the home screen.
The voodoo removal sort of worked in that while I was doing it, I also went ahead and did a privacy wipe. Everything would be fine and dandy however, my phone no longer connects to any network. It seems to be in a perpetual state of being unable to find a network. It's not airplane mode, but my phone does think it's January first 2005 again.
Did I miss a step?
runeliger said:
Hey guys thanks for all the help,
The calling of the phone didn't work. Tried it, but it kept giving me corrupt errors so I wasn't able to access the home screen.
The voodoo removal sort of worked in that while I was doing it, I also went ahead and did a privacy wipe. Everything would be fine and dandy however, my phone no longer connects to any network. It seems to be in a perpetual state of being unable to find a network. It's not airplane mode, but my phone does think it's January first 2005 again.
Did I miss a step?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You did the privacy wipe from within the settings menu ???? That fixed a similar issue where I couldn't connect to the network
mexiken said:
You did the privacy wipe from within the settings menu ???? That fixed a similar issue where I couldn't connect to the network
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes indeed I did. The first thing I did was the Factory data reset.
Unfortunately, the phone seems to be in a state of perpetual ariplane mode preventing access to any network.
The phone also seems to be suffering from that com.android.phone crashes that I suppose make sense given how the Hardware version and the Baseband version are both unknown.
I'm going to try to flash it again in hopes of resetting my phone. The perpetual airplane mode is of course an issue. (but at least I got the alarm functinoality of my phone back)
Hrm, I'm concerned now. Check your settings / about phone and baseband version. Please tell me it does not say 'unknown'.
Yea, mine wasn't stuck in airplane mode, just didn't connect to google's servers to set up gmail.
If you're still rooted, maybe try the radio update ????
Any update ????
mexiken said:
maybe try the radio update ????
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
DANGER! - Don't go updating your radio unless you really know what you're doing. Yes there has been a radio update with the D01 however flashing the wrong thing to the radio will result in a shiny brick that as of right now can't be recovered!
Yeah I was seeing a bunch of unknowns in a lot of my slots.
I wasn't sure what was wrong, so I did some more research and it seemed as though that the modem aspect of my phone must have corrupted.
So I simply went to a verizon store and swapped out my phones (since I couldn't find a fixed modem).
The other fix of deleting via the privacy wipe definitely worked though.
Thanks everyone!
i500 fascinate too many patterns
what I did I turn the phone off
then turn it on ones the one verizon animation goes of it asks for the email and pass so start hitting home button as fast as you can and sometimes emergency button till it takes you to the main many do not stop till al the icons load up
then you got it but you have to go in to the menu and wipe it off or erease the email account
it worked for me after few tries it shoulg work for you too
anngiehdz said:
what I did I turn the phone off
then turn it on ones the one verizon animation goes of it asks for the email and pass so start hitting home button as fast as you can and sometimes emergency button till it takes you to the main many do not stop till al the icons load up
then you got it but you have to go in to the menu and wipe it off or erease the email account
it worked for me after few tries it shoulg work for you too
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i think its safe to say that responding to 6+ month old threads is at best pointless..at worst stupid
nitsuj17 said:
i think its safe to say that responding to 6+ month old threads is at best pointless..at worst stupid
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Respectfully I have to disagree. Sharing a new solution to an old problem cannot be a bad thing. maybe 6+ months from now it will save someones bacon without having to start a new thread for it
Here is what happend:
So this is my sisters phone and Im trying to fix it for her. The phone was locked when our little sister failed to open it too many times (my sister had the graphical lock enabled). My sister then took it to a phone store which managed to fix the lock (updating it from 1.6 to 2.1) but in the same process they somehow managed to make the phone block calls and text. They told her that it had "been blocked"..?
She after that she cant send or receive texts, cant make or receive calls but she can surf via 3G.
What is wrong?
Here is what I've tried:
I'm a big andriod noob since Im a iphone user but I can use google and I've jailbreaked/unlocked iphones many times.
So I've tried both to re-flash (with flash tool) the phone and to restore it with SEUS. None worked. First after using the Flash tool the phone got stucked in a boot-loop. At this points I tried SEUS but it would just get stuck and then tell me that the restore had failed. At last I managed to get back into a working phone when I went down to 1.6 using ROOT_F3V3 (I dont know if I did the whole flash procedure right but right but when it was done the phone started fine but the text and call issues persisted). So then I tried SEUS again and this time it worked so now I got a fully updated and restored phone. BUT STILL: it cant text, make or receive calls. Is there any next step? Any method which I haven't tried yet? I stumbeled upon something called xRecovery. Could that help me? Or is the phone pretty much bricked...
Please help me
123123s said:
Here is what happend:
So this is my sisters phone and Im trying to fix it for her. The phone was locked when our little sister failed to open it too many times (my sister had the graphical lock enabled). My sister then took it to a phone store which managed to fix the lock (updating it from 1.6 to 2.1) but in the same process they somehow managed to make the phone block calls and text. They told her that it had "been blocked"..?
She after that she cant send or receive texts, cant make or receive calls but she can surf via 3G.
What is wrong?
Here is what I've tried:
I'm a big andriod noob since Im a iphone user but I can use google and I've jailbreaked/unlocked iphones many times.
So I've tried both to re-flash (with flash tool) the phone and to restore it with SEUS. None worked. First after using the Flash tool the phone got stucked in a boot-loop. At this points I tried SEUS but it would just get stuck and then tell me that the restore had failed. At last I managed to get back into a working phone when I went down to 1.6 using ROOT_F3V3 (I dont know if I did the whole flash procedure right but right but when it was done the phone started fine but the text and call issues persisted). So then I tried SEUS again and this time it worked so now I got a fully updated and restored phone. BUT STILL: it cant text, make or receive calls. Is there any next step? Any method which I haven't tried yet? I stumbeled upon something called xRecovery. Could that help me? Or is the phone pretty much bricked...
Please help me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try it with a different sim card to make sure that it's not something related to the mobile account.
GreatBigDog said:
Try it with a different sim card to make sure that it's not something related to the mobile account.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've tried 3 different Sim cards
Go to Settings > Wireless settings stuff > mobile provider > Choose your network manually
I dont know how it's called, in english because my phone is in dutch. But somewhere there you can choose manually a network.
PlayGunsta said:
Go to Settings > Wireless settings stuff > mobile provider > Choose your network manually
I dont know how it's called, in english because my phone is in dutch. But somewhere there you can choose manually a network.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Changing carrier doesn't change anything for me...
Try flashing a custom rom via xrecovery there is a sticky in this section specially made for "android noobs" like you and mate no offence
Sent from my X10i using XDA Premium App
Hi,
I just flashed my Gaxaxy S2 with the lintening rom yesterday. Everything has been working fine. Last night I setup my email, which was working fine. Part of the email setup requires yos to setup a password on the device. I remember the phone asked for 2 seperate password. Later on the phone restarted, but since then I am unable to get into the handset. My password is not working, and I do not know why.
The phone is booting into the Litening Rom, but is asking "Enter password to unlock". In the hope of getting the phone to reset I have entered the password wrong over 100 times, but it keeps on asking for the password. When I enter the password incorrectly 5 times, it says.. "Incorrect Password entered x times. Wait 30 seconds and try again".
Any suggestions how I can clear this prompt ? I dont care if I loose all my data on the phone...
Thanks,
Richard
If I were u, I would do factory reset from cwm, this will erase ur password with everything else
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
You don't mean the PIN, do you? You may be screwed if you lost your efs folder.
Hi, Thanks for your replies so far...
Exactly what happened...
Installed the rom
Setup Outlook to connect to my exchange 2007 server using ssl.
The exchange server enforced by policy a password to be set on the device.
I set the password.
When phone restarted, password was not being accepted...
Now cannot get past the password prompt... have tried entering the wrong password 100 times, but it wont reset the device....
is there a way to clear the password ? or even wipe the entire device and install a new rom ?
Thanks,
Richard
I had the exact same problem. Factory resetting through cwm even flashing new rom after full wipe didnt work. Flashed stock rom, without rooting go into recovery mode and then do a hard reset.
5kops said:
I had the exact same problem. Factory resetting through cwm even flashing new rom after full wipe didnt work. Flashed stock rom, without rooting go into recovery mode and then do a hard reset.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think I have this exact same issue caused by active sync. I re-flashed Litening 3 times and try some other ROMs nothing worked! I will try re-flashing the stock rom like you did @5kops and see how I go.
Hi Ive got the same issue - did flashing the stock ROM and doing hard reset fix the issue?
On Saturday, during navigation the phone turned off by itself and since that time after turning on he turn off by itself again and again after some time ... approximately 3 minutes whenever I touch the display. This happens only if there is any sim phone operator. The first time a problem occurs I had in the phone recorded from February ROM MiniCM7-2.1.8., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-10 and worked without problems. Today I installed the ROM MiniCM7-2.2.1., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-11 and it did not help. It doesnt help when I recorded via SEUS original ROM. Do you know where can be a problem?
samekp said:
On Saturday, during navigation the phone turned off by itself and since that time after turning on he turn off by itself again and again after some time ... approximately 3 minutes whenever I touch the display. This happens only if there is any sim phone operator. The first time a problem occurs I had in the phone recorded from February ROM MiniCM7-2.1.8., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-10 and worked without problems. Today I installed the ROM MiniCM7-2.2.1., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-11 and it did not help. It doesnt help when I recorded via SEUS original ROM. Do you know where can be a problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Perhaps something to do with the SIM card? Try with someone else's SIM and see if it also occurs then?
Otherwhise backup your data and wipe/delete all caches and data in CWM (including the Advanced -> Wipe Dalvik Cache), and see if that helps.
Hey guys, i have installed a unofficial Cyanogenmod 11 kitkat 4.4 custom rom and i am very satisfied with it.
But today i was just messing around the lock screen options and i choosed a 6x6 pattern and applied it. But unfortunately after an hour or so i realized that i totally forgot the pattern i choosed. And now when i write the pattern 5 times wrong, it just locks for 30 seconds and i can try again but i cant reset it with my Gmail or anything like that, it just keeps locking for 30 seconds after 5 wrong attemps. Would re-installing the rom remove the lock screen? Or maybe a factory reset? Or can i just remove the pattern in any way? Any help would be appreciated!
@pointstar
See if this help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557228
ChikeD said:
@pointstar
See if this help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557228
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tried it, said pattern or pin removed, then got stuck on rebooting sytem.. I removed the battery and restarted the phone but the pattern lock is still there, tried a random pattern but it didnt work, any other solution?
pointstar said:
Tried it, said pattern or pin removed, then got stuck on rebooting sytem.. I removed the battery and restarted the phone but the pattern lock is still there, tried a random pattern but it didnt work, any other solution?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can always do a factory data rest and lsoe all your settings and installed apps.
Haven't experienced this before but a quick search led me here: http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/ho...u-bypass-android-pattern-lock-screen-0138807/
Worth a try.
In the stock rom when you forget your pattern you can unlock via google account but unfortunately cyanogenmod doesn't have this feature, i also tried the command prompt solution but it didn't work, i got errors like "cant path to xx" or cant delete gesture.key because it doesn't exist, but anyway the factory reset did the job. Thank you guys!
A solution that worked for me
Well, I've logged into Google play, got into "device manager" and then selected "lock".
Essentially, it asked me to define a new password, and shortly afterwards ( probably after the push notification was sent) I was able to unlock with the new password.