Is there such a thing?
If my phone ever gets stolen, I'll just consider it gone. The first thing anyone with half a brain will do is power it off and pull the sim. By having a boot password I'll ensure they can't use my data and have to wipe the phone.
Godfrd824 said:
Is there such a thing?
If my phone ever gets stolen, I'll just consider it gone. The first thing anyone with half a brain will do is power it off and pull the sim. By having a boot password I'll ensure they can't use my data and have to wipe the phone.
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this would be a great thing, like a bios password
I believe that Ice Cream Sandwich and later will let you encrypt your entire device so that you need to enter a password to decrypt it each time you boot.
The password is entered at the lock screen.
I haven't personally tried it because it appears to prevent custom recoveries from accessing data on the phone.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388977 for more information.
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If you have a password at the lock screen, files cannot be accessed via USB as it won't mount the /sdcard until after the password has been entered. But if you have a recovery installed then someone could just mount the sdcard from within that.
The thief would have to know what recovery is first. What are the odds of that happening? If you do end up getting your phone stolen by a thief with tech knowledge about Android, then consider it your bad luck and forget about it.
On a side note, use Cerberus. It's a hell of an app and you can remotely wipe data off your phone and SD card via www.cerberusapp.com or using SMS via the Cerberus client app (if your phone's internet is disabled).
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On a side note, use Cerberus. It's a hell of an app and you can remotely wipe data off your phone and SD card via www.cerberusapp.com or using SMS via the Cerberus client app (if your phone's internet is disabled).
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Wow! I didn't know about Cerberus. I'm going to have to try this out some time. I especially like the idea of being able to take pictures of the thief.
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It's brilliant. And for the very minimal amount that you have to pay for a lifetime license (~$4.5), you get to use up to 5 devices with your account. The best way to install Cerberus if you're rooted is to download the flashable zip from their website and flash it. Or copy the Cerberus apk to /system partition and set permissions. That way, even if the thief factory resets the device, the app will remain in the /system partition and still be active. Unless the thief knows how to go into recovery, wipe system and flash a new ROM (highly unlikely), Cerberus will always be there to work when required. If you install it from Play Store then it goes into the /data partition and gets removed when a factory reset is done.
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Need help
Hi, i hv htc one v and i want to root it, i tried bt failed. Cd u pls help me....?
reset to factory setting with starting the phone
What if the phone is reset to factory setting with starting the phone? There is an option to do that with out starting the phone by pressing the down volume key and the power key.
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Now I can officially confirm.
The phone is bricked by WIFIunlocker
Now it does not even go to recovery as it asks about the password. Before i could at lease answer the calls but now it does not even load the system and it asks about password.
Same as for this fellow.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215590&highlight=WIFIunlocker
On what level it is messing up that full flash does not help?
What needs to be done to unbrick it? The support from developer is not existant anf the app is messing up the phone.
Password is whatever you set the pin unlock code to.
No it is not
that is teh beauty of g4rb4g3 = Garbage development.
It is bricking the phone
Intratech said:
Password is whatever you set the pin unlock code to.
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The dev gave in to the fact about a password bug. And said he provided a fix.. but that is only installable when you have access to the OS.
This app is hellspawn.
What is the link to that fix?
The app's thread.
mahatma said:
ANd i fixed it again from the brick
Just go to download mode
flush it with stock
after restart try to go to recovery it will ask you about the password
type anything as many timea as it will tell you that if you will try again it will wipe out your internall sd card
of course try once more it will wipe out your sd card and ask you again for password
type anything again and again and it will warn you again that if you try again it will wipe the internal sd card and after that you will see red info that your pass was changed to NULL
restart
and you are in and all is back to normall
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Holy ****. What an epic ****ing failure by that dev.
I can only imagine how successful his app will be, after seeing 2 different threads about WifiUnlocker bricking phones. It's a shame crap apps like that reach the market before being thouroughly tested by whoever develops them.
What a bunch of garbage! Glad i never downloaded that app
I have a x10 and I have to reflash it Coz of that wifiunlocker is asks for password for everything and doesn't uninstall after also unstalling through titanium backup it asks for password.
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As posted before, this user claims to fix this.
mahatma said:
ANd i fixed it again from the brick
Just go to download mode
flush it with stock
after restart try to go to recovery it will ask you about the password
type anything as many timea as it will tell you that if you will try again it will wipe out your internall sd card
of course try once more it will wipe out your sd card and ask you again for password
type anything again and again and it will warn you again that if you try again it will wipe the internal sd card and after that you will see red info that your pass was changed to NULL
restart
and you are in and all is back to normall
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TL;DR -> keep entering a wrong password all the time. Seems it will wipe your SD after that, but that's your way out I guess.
Hard reset without password protection.
Is there any method or application that put the password to be made hardreset.
For example, do not put as password to unlock the device, if someone (or child) for wanting to do a hardreset or unintentionally, the android does not mean that this is done.
Don't think so.
If you're letting a child use the device unsupervised (my wife is banned from even touching it),...... if you're rooted: keep a copy of your latest nandroid backup on external sdcard and PC. So if anything does happen, you can recovery in minutes.
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Hello,
i have a question for developers.
Found some android apps for locating lost/stolen phone.
Its all good if someone who finds a phone doesnt reset it to default (that is the logical thing to do if you want to set your google acc on it)
My question is how to integrate app into rom (with a identification key) when you reset the phone the app is installed and configured by default.
What app would you use for this?
Thx.
You could put the app in /system/app/ and it will be a system app so reset won't delete the app (a data wipe will remove all associated app data and there is no way I know of by which the app's data can survive the data wipe) or if you think "what if he changes the Rom?" in that case you can go a step further and integrate the app and it's associated data in the kernel's ramdisk so even if he changes the Rom, the app and it's data remains there configured as you wanted untill, he flashes a different kernel and "what if he flashes a
Different kernel?" then you'll lose the phone for sure! That's the most you can do.
p.s: in theory, if you integerate the app and it's data with the bootloader then it would be nearly impossible for him to change the bootloader (as of now) at the same time practically there is no way you can modify the bootloader to integrate the app and it's data (as of now)( you'll potentially hard brick the device for sure if you play with the bootloader)
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Just make it a system app, the rest is useless, because if you loose your phone you lock it and that prevents from enabling debugging to disable access to system root so he cannot wipe nor flash anything, the only thing i wonder is if cwm can be accessed on locked phone, that's why i was about to make a post asking wether it's possible to get a pwd protected cwm
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Just make it a system app, the rest is useless, because if you loose your phone you lock it and that prevents from enabling debugging to disable access to system root so he cannot wipe nor flash anything, the only thing i wonder is if cwm can be accessed on locked phone, that's why i was about to make a post asking wether it's possible to get a pwd protected cwm
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Yes cwm can be accessed from a locked phone and you don't have to enable debugging to flash anything from cwm because if you enable/disable debugging it effects only after the Rom boots whereas cwm kicks in before the Rom boots.
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Some thing very strange happened yesterday, suddenly my pattern I have used for a year now stopped working. when I click forgot password and sign into my google account it still doesn't work (maybe because I have no internet access?) it says wrong username or password. I found a way to reset the gesturekey through adb, but I think the pattern is blocking my adb, because when I have it plugged in adb devices lists no devices... I am pretty sure usb debugging was on though from when I got my token ID for unlocking the bootloader... any help would be much appreciated. factory reset would be very bad because I NEED the playlists I have on my rezound, HOURS were spent on those and I use them a lot for work and I don't think I can recreate them...
If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
blu422 said:
Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
blu422 said:
First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
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Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
Insertnamehere12 said:
Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
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thanks, they are located in the stock music app
looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
blu422 said:
looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
blu422 said:
Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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Some people have had luck with a paperclip, but I wasn't able to get it to work after about 30 min of trying. Any piece of wire should be able to work, really. I ended up using a 25-foot speaker cable I had hooked up to my stereo system. Worked fine.
blu422 said:
Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
It's best to use a different sd card just in case it gets messed up. Had 2 get deleted, easily fixable , but you will lose data on the card.
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thanks so much! alright one last question... i am about to bootloader unlock... i was gonna a few months back and got the unlock_code.bin, but since then it has been a few months and a factory reset, will the same unlock_code.bin work or do I need to get a new one?
EDIT: I got impatient. Yes it worked.
Insertnamehere12 said:
I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
blu422 said:
I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
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He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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mjh68 said:
He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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He is unable to check via this method because of the lock pattern issue. I believe he is trying to S-OFF so he can flash a new ROM and access his playlist data to export it. I am still Unsure if it is stored on the Internal SD Card, External SD Card or in /data
Static Electricity will murder electronics, some test equipment I've worked with would cost 3-5000 dollars to fix after just a 0.2v static charge.... Typical static charge can be upwards of 10,000 V.
While touching something metal will discharge static electricity, it may not discharge all of it. Touch something metal that is connected to earth ground, like the metal of outside of your computer's case.
Also what I meant by double check was research your S-OFF method... it May wipe your Phone, Internal, and/or External SD Card.
I think the playlists are gone..... they wont show up in the stock music app... but alas... I will make do, but I'm gonna make sure to S-OFF, and install a recovery and get a nandroid on my computer so it doesnt happen again, i just unlocked my bootloader and gotta wait till i get home (I am on vacation right now) in a few days to have access to my linux computer then I will be S-OFF thanks again everybody, especially insertnamehere12! I think I will end up throwing on a rom that lets me use t-mobile usa... any suggestions?
For the code are u talking about *#*#4636#*#*, use it sometimes when my 4g doesn't work lol
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Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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merlin66676 said:
Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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good thought I think I know what you are getting at maybe I'll give that a go...
Hello
On Galaxy S9+ in recovery menu I can find function called "Lacking storage booting". Someone know what this function do ?
Mine too igot confuse what is this for?Lacking Storage Booting
ive been trying to get info for a whilenow including asking sammy multiple times..
what I gather is, if your storage is full to the point you are having device issues or boot looping you enable that option which does something to where you can boot up and save some of your files.. it isnt a permanent fix as it suggests you should do a reset after u get ur files off
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
Reply to the question of DATA LOSS (No Data would be lost!)
pooch22 said:
Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
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No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
Alyaan said:
No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
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THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
Totally Odd Situation For ME!
pooch22 said:
THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
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For me it's an odd situation because I never went through a locked phone because I have my Samsung account signed in my Galaxy and so when I forget the code I simply go to Samsung Find My Mobile Website and unlock my phone from there. So What I know about this situation is:
1) If you signed your SAMSUNG ACCOUNT in your phone so UNLOCK your phone from the SAMSUNG website.
2) Your Data would definitely be lost and so you have to RESET YOUR PHONE through recovery mode:
After resetting you won't be able to get into the PHONE if Google Protection Lock was turned on (By Default it's ON) and to bypass it you can login your GOOGLE ACCOUNT which was logged in your phone. If you did not logged on your GOOGLE EMAIL then reset it but you would loss all of it's data. In this case if you forgot your GOOGLE ACCOUNT so you can easily bypass it FROM MARKET without logging the account.
3) Go to market and ask the person whether it is possible to get your photos/data if possible so it's best. IF not so, sorry for your lost
- Boot Lacking Won't let you enter into your phone without entering the password ( For you case just ignore it's existence for to HELP you)
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
Fattima said:
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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no.. y would u need a sd card? it tells u wat it does in recovery when u select it.. all it does is start device with mininal resources so u can back up ur data if its runnin like crap if ur storage is full so u can then factory reset
Fattima said:
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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I feel sad for being late and I wasn't able to help you at time but thanks to elliwigy for covering this thing at time. My e-mails are so messed up gonna fix this mess up soon. Sorry in literal meaning.
Thou Fattima, I'm here to add that Samsung revoked this feature from all it's devices which had this. It's quiet not possible to be there. Is that feature still on your phone then your phone is not up to date. Not in my S9+ neither on my s20ultra.
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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yes, why wouldnt u be able to?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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Yes, definitely it's possible. Boot Lacking is used when we are stuck in boot loop (phone restarting continuously and doesn't let you boot in) but when we reset phone from recovery option that is a step which comes before looping so obviously we can reset directly.
How do you perform lacking storage booting? Is it a button combination that you do when the phone is booting? Is it an option in the menu that I'm too stupid to understand? Sorry for the late reply.
i know a device can help you to backup everything in your phone if you are interested. it will help you to storage it in a difference micro SD card or External portable hard drive if you have them.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hey there,
I would like to do your suggestions but my power button is not working.. :/ Any suggestions perhaps?
Thank you in advance and stay safe
another problematic person here... what if i press Lacking Storage Booting nd phone doesnt rourn on it goes to phone is statring msg optimasig app..... the after it reset it self and then again i moved to recvery short version with only 4 picks. then i reset the phone i prese volume up and power to go to full recovery and again and again... is my phone dead? is there a way to instal andrond maybe from sd card if so whre to get that file from? i really dont want loose stuff on my phone. also clearing app data wipe them all right?? like msg etc? i just have important msg on some communicators and i would rather not to loose them...any way to access phone while its off to comy data??