Hithere,
I've searched the forum and can't find an answer.
Is there a way to reset the phone without having access to Settings? I've forgotten my pattern and can't remember my secret question, so I need to wipe the phone completely. I am happy to do this, just need to know how.
I've read a few different snippets from around the internet but none of them seem trustworthy (and also don't work either!)
Thanks,
Gausie
if your on a rooted phone. backup first and reboot to recovery then wipe settings. if not then i think there is no other way or i could just be mistaken
demoniacs said:
if your on a rooted phone. backup first and reboot to recovery then wipe settings. if not then i think there is no other way or i could just be mistaken
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It's not rooted. Does anyone know of any way to recover use of the phone??
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Hello all,
may i´m not right in this forum, but i can´t see a matching one.
I bought a used android phone from someone who was somekind of "not friendly".
Coming from winmob, i´m an android noob.
After reading here and at the net about the possibilities of android apps, i am now a little afraid to go online with the device with my sim inside, because i am not sure if the seller may installed some spy-apps and then may get my personal data, my location, or may remotely crash the device after a while.
I´ve already set it back to factory. But as i read, there may some apps which will survive this. I´ve also already rooted and installed some "su-apps" to look inside processes and files.
But there are many apps and services i cannot judge if they are standard from the OS and safe, or not.
Are there tools to investigate if something "weird" is installed, or may blacklists of spy-apps?
Thx in advance.
flash back to a stock rom, then youll know you are safe.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
thanks for the quick reply
you mean, when i run
settings - security - back to factory (my translation from german)
is enough and no "backround-spy-process" is able to survive within this process?
thx
Search the market for Dr.Web perhaps?
syrenz said:
Search the market for Dr.Web perhaps?
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will have a look about it, thx
Simply doing the factory reset may not get it.
If you're rooted, install a custom recovery and then install a custom ROM (could be custom, or just a rooted stock rom). You'll wipe the various partitions when you install the rom, and that should clear anything up.
We aren't going to be able to help much more than that without knowing at least what phone you have. Note that there are phone-specific subforums here, I would recommend that you find the one for the phone you bought and ask in there.
the orange bandit said:
Simply doing the factory reset may not get it.
If you're rooted, install a custom recovery and then install a custom ROM (could be custom, or just a rooted stock rom). You'll wipe the various partitions when you install the rom, and that should clear anything up.
We aren't going to be able to help much more than that without knowing at least what phone you have. Note that there are phone-specific subforums here, I would recommend that you find the one for the phone you bought and ask in there.
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thx for your suggestions....
as i said, i´m an android noob and a little afraid to install a custom ROM and if it will crash then.
it was on 1.6 and i already updated it to 2.2 (OTA) ... did that may did the same as to install a new (custom-) ROM?
btw. it´s a streak and i spent a lot of time to setup apps, widgets, etc.
are there really no tools to detect known spy-apps?
thanks to all
Dr.Web doesn't do that? I got the impression that was what it was for... :shrug:
Hey guys, I have just one quick question.
I can manage unlocking the bootloader and rooting my device but I'm afraid that by doing so, everything on my phone will go back to stock, kinda like doing a factory reset. I have spent literally a week setting up my homescreens and downloading all the apps that I needed so having my phone go back to stock would be highly inconvenient.
Can anyone who has rooted their amaze confirm this? Did unlocking and rooting your device made it go back to stock and you had to set up everything again?
Once you unlock your bootloader your device doe's a factory reset , after that you won't need to factory reset unless u flash a ROM & there are 4 ROMS to choose from now .
Thank you for your answer.
Greatly appreciate it.
No problem , if you need anymore help just hit me up .
Revolution said:
Once you unlock your bootloader your device doe's a factory reset , after that you won't need to factory reset unless u flash a ROM & there are 4 ROMS to choose from now .
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Great reply Rev.
For the OP, use MyBackup Free to backup your apps and settings.
The settings is easy to restore but until you have root... the apps is kind of a pain. But it's easier than going through Market.
I do not have a micro sd card, do i need one when rooting or unlocking my droid?
Felinos11 said:
I do not have a micro sd card, do i need one when rooting or unlocking my droid?
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You do because the current recovery does not mount allow flashing from the internal sdcard.
I installed my job email from an exchange email server. To complete the install i had to enter either a password or pincode (which i did not have from before), I chose password and entered a 4 digit code of the same number (e.g. 4444).
When I try (tried) to unlock my phone it says that it is not a correct match. This could come from a typo made by me or something which I can not grasp. If I type the password wrong one more time (9 out of 10), it says that it will factory reset my phone and delete all content (i have nothing of my data on my sd card, and the last backup was about a year ago)
Either way, I have lots of stuff on my phone which I do not want to loose (which is not in my last back up), meaning I will do A LOT to avoid hard reset/factory reset, also meaning I ask if there is a way to bypass the password without any wipe?
PS. I understand that the question above just as well could be written by a thief or similar, however, I can only say that I am just a simple Norwegian that wants help to access my pics, msgs, memos etc.
PS. If it is not legal to ask this kind of question here; could not understand from forum rules, tell me so and I will delete the post accordingly.
So if you enter a wrong unlock password 10 times it will Wipe/Reset the phone and give you access to it? I have never wiped or factory reset my Galaxy S2, so that's why I am just curious.
About your case, I just don't think it would be a really good security system if there was a simple way to bypass it. Who knows? maybe there is?
Yes, at least thats what the security set up from my job email account has constructed. Or at least what it is, I am not 100% sure that it will happen, but i'm not willing to take the risk yet..
Of course, and I am not imagining that someone will give me a short solution. As I am asking, I want to know if it is possible, and if so hopefully a hint in the right direction and level of difficulty can be given.
Have you got root and CWM installed?
if you are running a rooted kernel that has adb u can pull your files and reset
But before that usb debugging needs to be enabled.
Nope, no root kernel, no cwm as far as I know.. Any options? I heard/read that it is possible to set the phone in debug mode and make a script as a solution to my problem, familiar with something like that and if it will work? Do not know what/how to do either, but I am willing to learn how to.
Flash Siyah kernel through Odin. After that you can make a CWM flashable zip to flash package which will contain a password deleting script.
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Nope, no root kernel, no cwm as far as I know.. Any options? I heard/read that it is possible to set the phone in debug mode and make a script as a solution to my problem, familiar with something like that and if it will work? Do not know what/how to do either, but I am willing to learn how to.
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Flash siyah kernel by download mode
reboot to recovery u will have siyah recovery with adB enabler
Pull ur data and reset
Or if u find a pass reset script use it
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Sorry for the duplicated post. I just noticed the other one i posted is in the wrong section and this is the one for the AT&T phones so here it is again.
Hi Guys. Today i rooted my phone for the first time (LG Optimus G e970)
Everything went well, then i uninstalled the bloatware from AT&T and a few of the google apps that i do not use like books or music, and on the next reboot i got my phone bricked with the LG loop and "Security Error" message.
I found some great info on these forums on getting the phone in working condition with the help of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2388440
However, before i go ahead and restore the phone's original firmware, i would like to know if there is anyway to recover some of the files. I have some important notes i wish to recover, everything else is on google and the external SD card so im not all lost.
I am able to put the phone in download mode by holding the up and down volume keys and then powering on the phone with the usb cable connected to the PC, but it is not showing as an external disk on the computer. I do have the LG drivers installed tho, the same ones i used to root the phone.
Any ideas?. thanks a lot.
What recovery do you have ? You may be able to mount internal and sd card in recovery and access them on your computer ?
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What recovery do you have ? You may be able to mount internal and sd card in recovery and access them on your computer ?
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Hi thank for the help.
I have no clue about what recovery i have. I never played with the phone before the rooting and removal of the apps, so i believe it should be the "stock" recovery if you wanna call it like that.
axopro said:
Hi thank for the help.
I have no clue about what recovery i have. I never played with the phone before the rooting and removal of the apps, so i believe it should be the "stock" recovery if you wanna call it like that.
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I don't know what guide you followed to get the root. If you followed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450258
You should have twrp. Stock recovery may not be able to mount storages for uses on PCs.
Also I haven't seen the post you included , maybe that's an older post. A lot of people use this to recover their "bricked" phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
I personally have followed this too.
As long as you have download mode you don't have to worry. However you need to read carefully before processing with teenybins because its something that can actually brick your phone if used wrong.
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I don't know what guide you followed to get the root. If you followed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450258
You should have twrp. Stock recovery may not be able to mount storages for uses on PCs.
Also I haven't seen the post you included , maybe that's an older post. A lot of people use this to recover their "bricked" phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
I personally have followed this too.
As long as you have download mode you don't have to worry. However you need to read carefully before processing with teenybins because its something that can actually brick your phone if used wrong.
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Ok so when i did the rooting i followed that same guide you linked to, but i only did it to the root part. Not the "UNLOCK BOOTLOADER AND INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY-"
I just wanted the permissions to remove the apps.
So now with the TeenyBin guide.... will that erase the current settings and information on the phone or is it just an attempt to fix the firmware loop?
will the process attempt to restore the google apps missing?
axopro said:
Ok so when i did the rooting i followed that same guide you linked to, but i only did it to the root part. Not the "UNLOCK BOOTLOADER AND INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY-"
I just wanted the permissions to remove the apps.
So now with the TeenyBin guide.... will that erase the current settings and information on the phone or is it just an attempt to fix the firmware loop?
will the process attempt to restore the google apps missing?
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There are different kind of teenybins. They do different things, one giving you a working recovery and updating RPM/TZ, one restoring your phone to complete factory state. You will have to read it to know what I'm saying here. The one that give you twrp and update your partitions may let your data alone but you will most likely still have the existing bootloop. The gapps missing ? The ones you deleted ? If you use the bin that recovers phones to factory state then you will have all the stock apps again.
Quick update.
I was able to recover the phone and the data in it. :good:
I installed the new boot loader with the teenybin instructions and was able to backup the data partition to an SD card.
Anyway, after that i went for a recovery using the stock firmware and LGNPST and now i lost the boot loader with all the neat options, but got the phone working again, and to my surprise, everything was back there including data and applications,. i dont get it but oh well... im back alive.
Ill backup all the important stuff from now on, and then i will keep messing with the phone again LOL. i learned quite a few things today... ill read more from now on before doing more things.
Thanks for all the help.!!
Good nite
HTC desire HD I am not sure of configuration I can not look at anything or even change or delete anything I did not even know she did it till I tried to root it myself I looked at the my app in play store and chainDD is instaled as well as hide my root, along with busy box, cryomods,rom manager anyway i want control back and to see what she is doing. I can not see the app in my app folder she has hidden a few apps I can not do a factory reset she has gotten help from xda on how to stop a true factory rest. When I do a reset all It does is reset APN meaning that all apps and settings are all the same. Boot recovery as well I can not even flash a new rom keeps telling me a error accurred wile downloading (rom name) Now I know a little and by little I mean just what I have learned wile trying to fix this. So I am a noob to this. Until this happened I did not even know about sql, javascript, or command line still don't know much. I need help please. I would like to bust her out on what she is doing
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HTC desire HD I am not sure of configuration I can not look at anything or even change or delete anything I did not even know she did it till I tried to root it myself I looked at the my app in play store and chainDD is instaled as well as hide my root, along with busy box, cryomods,rom manager anyway i want control back and to see what she is doing. I can not see the app in my app folder she has hidden a few apps I can not do a factory reset she has gotten help from xda on how to stop a true factory rest. When I do a reset all It does is reset APN meaning that all apps and settings are all the same. Boot recovery as well I can not even flash a new rom keeps telling me a error accurred wile downloading (rom name) Now I know a little and by little I mean just what I have learned wile trying to fix this. So I am a noob to this. Until this happened I did not even know about sql, javascript, or command line still don't know much. I need help please. I would like to bust her out on what she is doing
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This was barely intelligible, to be honest. My understanding is that someone else rooted and modded your phone and you don't know what's going on. Simple enough - find the RUU (Rom Update Utility) for your phone. Need to make sure it is for the original carrier or region and the same software version (not just the android version) or higher than the one you are on. You will want to boot to the bootloader mode and see if the phone is S-On or S-Off. If it is S-On, you will need to relock the bootloader. Once you get the appropriate RUU and install that via PC, then you'll be back to stock and factory reset.