Hello everyone I recently got the LG Lucky and foolishly set up my lock screen before bed one night and forget my pin. Also I hadn't set up any google accounts so bypassing the lockscreen is seeming impossible.
I don't have USB debugging enabled and I for the life of me cannot find how to factory reset it or another problem of getting back into my phone. If anyone knows a solution I'd be forever grateful.
Found a solution
After talking with tech support they told me how to do a hard reset. While the device is off hold volume down and the power button. Once the LG logo comes up release the power button then immediately hold it again
You're the man
Thank you much for this, had a friend in distress and you saved the day. Cheers!
thanks been wanting to know how to do this since i got mine thank you thank you thank you
i am having the exact same problem i was on the phone with trac fone and no help if anyone knows i would really appreciae it:
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factory data reset is disabled by Kill switch this is the message i get when i try to reset and i keep getting the screen with the pier and emergency call press and hold
box what does factory data reset is disabled by kill switch????? any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm getting the same kill switch note pop up!! What do I do?? I can't get into settings because accessibility is somehow turned on too
U must disable McAfee s lock. When u register your phone with McAfee it automatically turns on the option to disable resets to detour theft. Turn that off (hopefully u didn't forget your 6 pin password) then u can reset your phone. I had to do the reset with the boot up reset feature
How do I get into McAfee to turn it off if I cannot get into my phone?
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Well, my little brother attempted to enter the pattern seemingly too many times and guess what I was locked out without any way to access my contacts, apps etc.
The phone prompted me to enter my google credentials, and guess what? I entered them only to see it reject it by saying that it was an incorrect username or password.
I kept looking in many forums and found no success even after 10 long hours of searching.
AND THEN....
I decided to GIVE MY PHONE A CALL from my house number. ACCEPTED IT and pressed the "Settings" button and there shows the Contacts, Sim Tools etc. I pressed the contact button only to see the dreaded locked screen again.
But since that was enough to give me hope, I GAVE MYSELF A CALL AGAIN and pressed the settings button again. Only this time I was able to enter into the Contacts menu. I pressed the Home button and was so glad I was able to ENTER MY HOME SCREEN!. I pressed and went to settings---> accounts and sync--->quickly synced my gmail and deleted all other accounts. I locked my phone again by pressing the power button. I ENTERED MY GOOGLE CREDENTIALS AGAIN and THIS TIME IT WORKED!!!
I was so glad that I had recovered my phone WITHOUT ANY DATA LOSS!
I hope this helps many who are suffering from this glaring android bug that is so frustrating.
BTW. I AM USING SAMSUNG VIBRANT with official firmware.
Guaide me please
yaape said:
Well, my little brother attempted to enter the pattern seemingly too many times and guess what I was locked out without any way to access my contacts, apps etc.
The phone prompted me to enter my google credentials, and guess what? I entered them only to see it reject it by saying that it was an incorrect username or password.
I kept looking in many forums and found no success even after 10 long hours of searching.
AND THEN....
I decided to GIVE MY PHONE A CALL from my house number. ACCEPTED IT and pressed the "Settings" button and there shows the Contacts, Sim Tools etc. I pressed the contact button only to see the dreaded locked screen again.
But since that was enough to give me hope, I GAVE MYSELF A CALL AGAIN and pressed the settings button again. Only this time I was able to enter into the Contacts menu. I pressed the Home button and was so glad I was able to ENTER MY HOME SCREEN!. I pressed and went to settings---> accounts and sync--->quickly synced my gmail and deleted all other accounts. I locked my phone again by pressing the power button. I ENTERED MY GOOGLE CREDENTIALS AGAIN and THIS TIME IT WORKED!!!
I was so glad that I had recovered my phone WITHOUT ANY DATA LOSS!
I hope this helps many who are suffering from this glaring android bug that is so frustrating.
BTW. I AM USING SAMSUNG VIBRANT with official firmware.
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dear sir ,,how to remove pattren lock with out deta lose please help me and Guaide step by step ,,and where is you g mail i d and home addres and contact no i am from pakistan,,
please no mind ....
i hope you understand ,,
and ADVANCE THANKS
AKMAL
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bilal483 said:
dear sir ,,how to remove pattren lock with out deta lose please help me and Guaide step by step ,,and where is you g mail i d and home addres and contact no i am from pakistan,,
please no mind ....
i hope you understand ,,
and ADVANCE THANKS
AKMAL
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Dear Sir,,
please no mind ,,customer many customer wants ,,with out deta lose many pattren lock ,gamail lock unlock with out deta lose ..please share software or eazy tips ...
Thanks ..
urgent
hi.
will u please tell me the process in detail. i am very much tens. i dont want to loose my data.
plz help at the earliest.
yaape said:
Well, my little brother attempted to enter the pattern seemingly too many times and guess what I was locked out without any way to access my contacts, apps etc.
The phone prompted me to enter my google credentials, and guess what? I entered them only to see it reject it by saying that it was an incorrect username or password.
I kept looking in many forums and found no success even after 10 long hours of searching.
AND THEN....
I decided to GIVE MY PHONE A CALL from my house number. ACCEPTED IT and pressed the "Settings" button and there shows the Contacts, Sim Tools etc. I pressed the contact button only to see the dreaded locked screen again.
But since that was enough to give me hope, I GAVE MYSELF A CALL AGAIN and pressed the settings button again. Only this time I was able to enter into the Contacts menu. I pressed the Home button and was so glad I was able to ENTER MY HOME SCREEN!. I pressed and went to settings---> accounts and sync--->quickly synced my gmail and deleted all other accounts. I locked my phone again by pressing the power button. I ENTERED MY GOOGLE CREDENTIALS AGAIN and THIS TIME IT WORKED!!!
I was so glad that I had recovered my phone WITHOUT ANY DATA LOSS!
I hope this helps many who are suffering from this glaring android bug that is so frustrating.
BTW. I AM USING SAMSUNG VIBRANT with official firmware.
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HEY THANKS FOR THE GUIDANCE BUT i AM USING MOTOROLLA CHARM MB502 AND WHEN I CALL ON MY NO & ANSWER THERE IS NO SETTING BUTTON, IT HAS A BACK BUTTON A HOME BUTTON & A MENU BUTTON I TRIED PRESSING ALL THESE BUT IT DOES NOT GO IN TO THE PHONE SETTINGS...PLEASE HELP ME WHAT CAN I DO
Too many pattern attemps!
I have this problem. I dont have a rooted phone. I dont want to loose my data. I have samsung galaxy y s 5360. i tried using adb bt cant get root access to go to data folder. I cant root my phnoe now. please help me
This program can really help, but it is almost 4$
screen lock bypass pro is a good alternative. can find it on Play store
Today I just recieved a sms, after replying to it, my lumia 920 gone crazy !
my messaging tile always show 1 unread message, when i open it, the sms that I read before shown unread ! i cant reply any sms after that !
even my mail app wont start, every time i tap its tile, it goes back to home screen
my missed call are not showing on phone tile or lock screen !
i have restarted the phone many time but that doesnt help !
what should I do ?
Reset/reflash
Hi
That sounds like a software problem. If it doesn't sort itself out you could start with a soft reset: long press the power and down volume together. If that doesn't fix it, you may need to do a full hard reset. Go into settings, about phone and then hit "reset phone". This will obviously wipe all your personal data.
If you hard reset, there is a chance that the phone will be "bricked", i.e. Go to a screen with a lightning symbol and a gear permanently. If this happens there is a video tutorial on how to reflash the ROM using Nokia Care Suite.
Hope you get it sorted.
God bless
andrew-in-woking
I had the same thing happen to mine... do you happen to have skype installed?
I had to do a hard reset in the end.
andrew-in-woking said:
Hi
That sounds like a software problem. If it doesn't sort itself out you could start with a soft reset: long press the power and down volume together. If that doesn't fix it, you may need to do a full hard reset. Go into settings, about phone and then hit "reset phone". This will obviously wipe all your personal data.
If you hard reset, there is a chance that the phone will be "bricked", i.e. Go to a screen with a lightning symbol and a gear permanently. If this happens there is a video tutorial on how to reflash the ROM using Nokia Care Suite.
Hope you get it sorted.
God bless
andrew-in-woking
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Thanks for your reply,
I just restarted the phone several times but it didnt work, at last I had to hard reset the phone !
sutt359 said:
I had the same thing happen to mine... do you happen to have skype installed?
I had to do a hard reset in the end.
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Yes I have skype installed !
I have to hard reset too :/
Hello everyone,
we got this cheap tablet for my niece as a Christmas gift. She put a password on it and now she doesnt remember the password. It is connected to one of my gmail accounts, but I cant even get the tablet to give me an option to bypass device password via my gmail and password.
I have attempted to use the reset button to factory reset the device, but every time it reboots it asks for the password again.
I am about to throw the thing in the trash and tell my niece "sorry, you borked it, too bad so sad" but I thought I would try here before I did that.
Thanks in advance!
hamm81 said:
Hello everyone,
we got this cheap tablet for my niece as a Christmas gift. She put a password on it and now she doesnt remember the password. It is connected to one of my gmail accounts, but I cant even get the tablet to give me an option to bypass device password via my gmail and password.
I have attempted to use the reset button to factory reset the device, but every time it reboots it asks for the password again.
I am about to throw the thing in the trash and tell my niece "sorry, you borked it, too bad so sad" but I thought I would try here before I did that.
Thanks in advance!
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I kept messing with it, and after trying the power + volume down process about 25 times I finally got it to take and entered into recovery. It didnt work at all the first bunch of times I tried it, basically this thing is annoying.
Thank you!
Factory Reset Sophix Tablet that works
hamm81 said:
I kept messing with it, and after trying the power + volume down process about 25 times I finally got it to take and entered into recovery. It didnt work at all the first bunch of times I tried it, basically this thing is annoying.
Thank you!
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So I was having the same problem. It turns out that you do not press the volume up button along with the power button, but instead press the volume button in the middle along with the power button. Found that on a you tube video.
That resets the device to factory settings.
Note: If you have a memory card in the device, take it out before you start all this process so it doesn't lose data.
Sophix Tablet is made by digix media but I didn't find their website helpful to reset the password. Their website had me downloading zip files to my computer, etc. Very lengthy and time consuming.
Hope this helps someone else!
hi, brought the used gear fit from gumtree, was using it for few hours, later when exploring i somehow got into pin lock screen and got struck, can someone help me to reset, done the reset by pressing and holding power button for 7 seconds still its asking me the pin, feeling like i'm lost :crying:
some on please help me , thx in advance
vijay.alapati said:
hi, brought the used gear fit from gumtree, was using it for few hours, later when exploring i somehow got into pin lock screen and got struck, can someone help me to reset, done the reset by pressing and holding power button for 7 seconds still its asking me the pin, feeling like i'm lost :crying:
some on please help me , thx in advance
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Hold power for 20 seconds. It will factory reset it.
aooga said:
Hold power for 20 seconds. It will factory reset it.
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Hi i also have this problem after letting someone borrow it they put a pin on it that they cant remember... holding the power button for 20 seconds deffinately DOES NOT work though. Ive even tried flashing new firmware via odin and had no luck. waiting on samsung to get back to me, but from previous responces i dont beleive that they will be any help :-/ any help here would be greatly appreciated
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Hi i also have this problem after letting someone borrow it they put a pin on it that they cant remember... holding the power button for 20 seconds deffinately DOES NOT work though. Ive even tried flashing new firmware via odin and had no luck. waiting on samsung to get back to me, but from previous responces i dont beleive that they will be any help :-/ any help here would be greatly appreciated
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They changed the combo to reset it in the newer versions. I don't know what it is though.
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Can you try connecting it to a different device? This will reset it if you can do it.
i had the same problem, also messed with odin to try to get rid of the pincode .
i installed oldest software in my language and did the 20 sec reset.
it worked for me, now updating to last version
vijay.alapati said:
hi, brought the used gear fit from gumtree, was using it for few hours, later when exploring i somehow got into pin lock screen and got struck, can someone help me to reset, done the reset by pressing and holding power button for 7 seconds still its asking me the pin, feeling like i'm lost :crying:
some on please help me , thx in advance
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I figured it out no thanks too Samsung after you put the gear in the rebooting screen hold the power button after highlighting download until it restarts, it should say welcome. Not the do not turn off target screen, just let it restart
Alexc129 said:
I figured it out no thanks too Samsung after you put the gear in the rebooting screen hold the power button after highlighting download until it restarts, it should say welcome. Not the do not turn off target screen, just let it restart
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Hi Alex,
can you explain more specifically what did you do to reset PIN code? I am trying many possibilities with no luck. With ODIN I downloaded the oldest firmware, but 20sec reset mentioned above also didn't work.
Thanks
EDIT: Resolved by flashing like in this article: http://www.addictootech.com/manually-upgrade-samsung-gear-fit-via-pc-odin/
You need BL and CSC files also to reset settings.
i can not get into my samsung gear fit
I played and locked it. I reached here searching for answers how to unlock it. And got successful.
What I did was HOLD the power button. After a few seconds, Display shows Power Off menu. DO NOT release the power button and hold until it restarts. When it booted back the PIN was no there and lucky enough that no data was lost on the watch.
The Software version on my watch is R360XXU1ERC7.
Hope that helps!
Dear Gurus,
Newbie here.
The phone boot up with T-mobile logo into a secure start-up display.
I have not reboot for a long time so I don't remember this mode nor its
password. I don't know what android version nor other info either b/c
I have just been using the phone for so long and not looking around.
It's lg v40 thinQ Aurora Black.
When I hard reset (vol dwn + power), the phone displayed
"Factory reset disabled by kill switch"
I googled all over and found this
w.w.w.y.o.u.t.u.b.e.c.o.m/watch?v=cq9JLh2Hndw
but no other way to disable or remove the killswitch. I don't even know
if this video worked with the lg v40, and it's not easy to open it up.
Is there a way to disable or remove the killswitch?
Thank you so much!
Look in settings>security >System Administrators
Thank you BlackHawk.
I am stuck at the "Secure start-up" screen b/c I don't remember the passwd,
then "Factory reset disabled by killswitch" screen, so I can't get to any
other screen to set anything.
Meh don't set screen, bios etc passwords.
Yeah the PC with no name... it gets it done.
NEVER password protect or encrypt backup data.
You're the one most likely to get lock out... sad but true.
It may be through no fault of your own, all it takes is a hardware failure or data corruption. Had no password been set you probably be ok.
The Cramps, What's Behind the Mask... damn that's sounding good. So true
Thanks BlackHawk.
So there is no way at all to get around my problems?
Maybe someone know s better than me... but there's one to bypass it I think. Research it.
I never tried it and it's halfway taboo here... you can see why. Play god... carry on.
Meh and don't set anymore passwords for boot up etc
Thanks, BlackHawk.
Much obliged. Will try and if I succeed, i'll report it here
... and won't set anymore passwd.
Unfortunately, nothing worked.
OTG method assumed one was logged in but the Secure Start-up screen prevented that
and I don't have the password. Not sure what happened if I used all 30 attempts and kill
switch is active.
Can't bypass Secure Start-up b/c Factory Reset was disabled by Kill Switch (my guess is
McAfee Kill Switch)
Can't use adb b/c kill switch prevented that.
It's chicken or egg problem. If someone knows some leads, please let me know. Thanks.