I recently took a trip to Japan, and while there I got a local sim card to avoid paying Verizon's ludicrous roaming fees. I put the card in, set my network information, and registered my phone with an intercepted web page. It told me to put my phone in airplane mode for 5 minutes so their network can finish registering my existence. I went into airplane mode, waited 5 minutes, and tried turning airplane mode off. Except nothing happened. If I pressed the airplane mode button from the power menu, the menu would just close. If I did it from the settings menu, the box would untick, but nothing would change.
Switching over to wifi I found many threads claiming there is an issue where if wifi calling gets enabled, you can no longer toggle airplane mode. It makes sense that this happened because I was using a data only sim, and I guess the phone fell back to the only option that allowed it to make phone calls. The standard solution is just to turn off wifi calling. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do that on this phone. I have heard that some people had this option added in 5.1.1, but I'm still running on 4.4.4 (problem for another day: my phone is hardware encrypted for work, I installed TWRP in an old attempt to get 5.0.1, and now when I try to update, it reboots into TWRP which can't load an encrypted phone).
I eventually managed to kind of fix the problem because I found some commands that forcibly toggle airplane mode via adb. Namely
adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 1
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE --ez state true
However, the airplane mode buttons still don't work to turn it off, and right now I can only turn it back on with adb or by removing my sim card (which forces me to reboot my phone which is extra slow because I have to re-enter my hardware encryption key).
I assume that if I could just change the wifi calling setting it would fix all of my problems. Unfortunately, every post about that I can find assumes there is a menu item for it. Does anyone know an adb command I can run, a utility I can use, or a setting file I can change to fix this field? If it helps, my phone is rooted. A simple reboot does nothing, and I would rather not have to do a factory reset if at all possible.
Thanks
Did you try a third party app to toggle airplane mode on/off ? Maybe dl one from play store and see if it uses different commands than android UI.
Can you try to run commands through a local terminal on the phone (termux for example) ?
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I recently took a trip to Japan, and while there I got a local sim card to avoid paying Verizon's ludicrous roaming fees. I put the card in, set my network information, and registered my phone with an intercepted web page. It told me to put my phone in airplane mode for 5 minutes so their network can finish registering my existence. I went into airplane mode, waited 5 minutes, and tried turning airplane mode off. Except nothing happened. If I pressed the airplane mode button from the power menu, the menu would just close. If I did it from the settings menu, the box would untick, but nothing would change.
Switching over to wifi I found many threads claiming there is an issue where if wifi calling gets enabled, you can no longer toggle airplane mode. It makes sense that this happened because I was using a data only sim, and I guess the phone fell back to the only option that allowed it to make phone calls. The standard solution is just to turn off wifi calling. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do that on this phone. I have heard that some people had this option added in 5.1.1, but I'm still running on 4.4.4 (problem for another day: my phone is hardware encrypted for work, I installed TWRP in an old attempt to get 5.0.1, and now when I try to update, it reboots into TWRP which can't load an encrypted phone).
I eventually managed to kind of fix the problem because I found some commands that forcibly toggle airplane mode via adb. Namely
adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 1
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE --ez state true
However, the airplane mode buttons still don't work to turn it off, and right now I can only turn it back on with adb or by removing my sim card (which forces me to reboot my phone which is extra slow because I have to re-enter my hardware encryption key).
I assume that if I could just change the wifi calling setting it would fix all of my problems. Unfortunately, every post about that I can find assumes there is a menu item for it. Does anyone know an adb command I can run, a utility I can use, or a setting file I can change to fix this field? If it helps, my phone is rooted. A simple reboot does nothing, and I would rather not have to do a factory reset if at all possible.
Thanks
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Don't have WiFi calling on this phone yet, only the S7 has AC 2.0 (advanced calling 2.0) which is WiFi calling capable, we have HD calling is all. Factory reset is best option.
I tried downloading a few apps to toggle airplane mode, but none of them worked.
Using a console app I was able to just run the adb commands locally to toggle airplane mode (it required root which is fine because I already had it via KingRoot). To avoid having to type in long commands by hand, I made them scripts in GScript Lite so I can just click a button to toggle it off or on. Its not as convenient as the menu toggles, but it's better than nothing.
Since you have root snoop around in the root directory and see if you find what was installed and remove it.
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Every time I turn wi-fi on, it simply says "Unable to scan for networks". Does anyone know how to fix this. I hard reset and that didnt help.
Try a full power outage. Pull the battery. Sometimes you need to clear voltage from hardware (especially radios) in order to clear the glitch.
If you find it necessary to do this a lot, there is a deeper problem.
If this fails, take it into the store.
I took it to the store and they said its a known bug.
They said they are fixing it in an update soon.
I don't know if its true...
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I had the same problem, it started when my phone dropped below the threshold for the power saving mode, I believe I went into those settings and disabled some things and got it working after a reboot (turn fast boot off)
spookytay said:
I had the same problem, it started when my phone dropped below the threshold for the power saving mode, I believe I went into those settings and disabled some things and got it working after a reboot (turn fast boot off)
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I tried all that and its still doing it...
I'm just going to wait until the bootloader is unlocked and then flash Cyanogen mod 7 when he makes it for the Evo 3D
I'm having a similar issue, my wifi goes into sleep mode and says "unable to connect to wi-fi" when i wake the phone up, but then immediately connects back to wifi. I tried changing the wi-fi sleep setting in spare parts, but nothing fixed it.
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I'm having a similar issue, my wifi goes into sleep mode and says "unable to connect to wi-fi" when i wake the phone up, but then immediately connects back to wifi. I tried changing the wi-fi sleep setting in spare parts, but nothing fixed it.
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Yup, this is the exact same problem I have been having!
Did.you try a data wipe???
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nhutpham said:
I'm having a similar issue, my wifi goes into sleep mode and says "unable to connect to wi-fi" when i wake the phone up, but then immediately connects back to wifi. I tried changing the wi-fi sleep setting in spare parts, but nothing fixed it.
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Do you have wifi set to "never sleep" in wifi settings??? Also if your running spare parts+ it also has an option to set wifi to never sleep. Also are you running any apps that puts the phone to sleep??? Also in display settings try changing your screen off time to 10 min.
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I tried the "never sleep" setting in spare parts, but the setting doesn't hold when I exit the program and open it again, it goes back to "android default". I don't see anywhere in the phone wi-fi settings to change the sleep options.
I'm unaware of any apps I'm running that put the phone to sleep, and I'm not sure what the display settings accomplish but I can try it.
None of this happened before, only thing that really has changed for me is that I got the iGrip car dock and the phone has seen dock mode a little bit. That and I went to a house with spotty wi-fi and my phone would connect and disconnect at the range of the router. I've had other issues with app/camera freezing, I'm hoping it's sd card related or perhaps due to ota's not taking correctly. I'm gonna try a sd card format/phone data reset to see if that remedies all the issues, otherwise I might go in for an exchange.
speedy0339 said:
I tried all that and its still doing it...
I'm just going to wait until the bootloader is unlocked and then flash Cyanogen mod 7 when he makes it for the Evo 3D
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BS. You shouldn't have to wait for a custom rom for your phone to be running normal. Take that **** back again.
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This happens to me. I have noticed it only happens if I have had my phone get below 30% battery at some point and the power save mode kicks in. For some reason it is not switching it back once power save mode is disabled.
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger GeeBees.
The setting isn't located under Wi-fi, look under Power, you should see the options in there. Turn power saver off, or adjust it's settings, and see if that helps, I wouldn't use spare parts
I did a full phone/sd card reset, and the problem STILL exists for me. Spare parts did restore itself as one of the applications that got restored, I uninstalled it without running it though. My phone settings seem to have gotten reset as well. I don't get it, my phone was fine even with spare parts installed before.
I might try another reset and see if spare parts still restores itself.
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I did a full phone/sd card reset, and the problem STILL exists for me. Spare parts did restore itself as one of the applications that got restored, I uninstalled it without running it though. My phone settings seem to have gotten reset as well. I don't get it, my phone was fine even with spare parts installed before.
I might try another reset and see if spare parts still restores itself.
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Are you.running spare parts plus??? Also the settings for the wifi never sleep is located in settings/wireless networks/wifi settings. Then hit menu and select advanced then choose wifi sleep policy. Also make sure best performance is selected.
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Ah, I didn't see that menu, thanks!
Rooted the phone then applied the OTA update and since then i keep getting a wifi error. Im currently out of the country so can't connect to sprint. Any ideas?
Anyone?
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Yup, had this problem after applying this OTA.
When I click the checkbox to enable wifi, it just shows "error" and does not enable wifi.
A factory reset fixed it for me.
My wifi turns on and connect but won't give me any data
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The Atrix has a driver related issue that causes problems connecting to WiFi access points in certain countries. I'm pretty sure they have figured out a workaround over in the Atrix XDA section, sorry I don't have a link for you.
Hi,
My name is Fisher, I have the same problem, I have the phone in Australia and I updated over wifi then my wifi just says error underneath it, also 4G does not work. I can turn wifi on by first putting the phone into aeroplane mode then restarting and turning wifi on while still in aeroplane mode. I have managed to get all working occasionally by having aeroplane mode and wifi on, then going to system updates which are greyed out then turning off aeroplane mode by holding down the power button and when ive done that i have a second or so before the wifi dies to click motorola software update that is now not greyed and it sometimes kicks everything on;-)
I have tried factory resetting the phone 3 times and formatting internal sd on third time, did nothing.
Now i have some dmesg logs with the wifi under error, working in aeroplane mode and all working with my trick, so let me knowif u want them all.
I have a feeling the issue could be a sprint app or process that disables it, look at the access/security settings for sprint zone, it can control wifi, everything seems to be briefley activated when i start the phone in the notification bar then wifi and 4g die, so maybe a sprint process detects that the phone has not activated or something and kills wifi and 4g.
I have reported this on the motorola forum in the thread someone else started, look for " motorola photon wifi error" in google and it might be the first hit.
Fisher
fisher.grubb said:
Hi,
My name is Fisher, I have the same problem, I have the phone in Australia and I updated over wifi then my wifi just says error underneath it, also 4G does not work. I can turn wifi on by first putting the phone into aeroplane mode then restarting and turning wifi on while still in aeroplane mode. I have managed to get all working occasionally by having aeroplane mode and wifi on, then going to system updates which are greyed out then turning off aeroplane mode by holding down the power button and when ive done that i have a second or so before the wifi dies to click motorola software update that is now not greyed and it sometimes kicks everything on;-)
I have tried factory resetting the phone 3 times and formatting internal sd on third time, did nothing.
Now i have some dmesg logs with the wifi under error, working in aeroplane mode and all working with my trick, so let me knowif u want them all.
I have a feeling the issue could be a sprint app or process that disables it, look at the access/security settings for sprint zone, it can control wifi, everything seems to be briefley activated when i start the phone in the notification bar then wifi and 4g die, so maybe a sprint process detects that the phone has not activated or something and kills wifi and 4g.
I have reported this on the motorola forum in the thread someone else started, look for " motorola photon wifi error" in google and it might be the first hit.
Fisher
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Sounds good. Ill give that a shot. Lemme know if you find out more
Mine is working fine, though today I turn WIFI off and my battery had a run away effect. The battery drained 30% in 10 min and the phone was at 116 degrees. It also rebooted itself twice but now it is fine and I turned wifi on and off a few times and no ill effect.
and yep I have the update.
Wifi ERROR after OTA update
hello everyone
i am not a US resident and i bought this amazing phone i am using Cellcom Israel Sim card
i just saw the firmware update,the update run smooth but after the reboot i try'd to turn Wifi on
and getting an ERROR.
try'd to reboot the phone - wifi not working
try'd to pull out the battery and restart - wifi not working
the only thing that works is when i restart the phone in AIRPLANE MODE the wifi works
but soon as i turn the AIRPLANE MODE off the wifi disconnected and cannot turn
it on again until turn back the AIRPLANE MODE again.
i do not using any data plan connection i dont have any...
what can i do??
Just do a factory reset. That will solve this problem.
Its a known problem. Lot of people are facing it after applying OTA. Just do factory reset and you should be fine.
Wifi ERROR after OTA update
hope you right...some pp'l that done this method complains that it didnt work
ohh shoot lets try!
its no go gives me an error when i need to activate the account via wifi.
this sux
Funkym0nkey said:
Just do a factory reset. That will solve this problem.
Its a known problem. Lot of people are facing it after applying OTA. Just do factory reset and you should be fine.
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Factory reset doesnt do a thing bro
Hi, I had the same issue actually watch the router and say the wifi connect and then drop, i installed wifi manager and then for some reason it started working and i haven't had a issue since.
no sure why it did this but i also restarted the phone multiple times trying to get it syncing and it wouldn't until that program was installed then after i got connected i uninstalled the app and it still connects without the app
got installed "wifi manager" and again error "error enabling wifi"
Factory resetting does nothing for me, I even formatted the internal memory as well on the third time, the only way so far I have managed to turn wifi and 4g back on and also data as data seems disabled is by:
Enable aeroplane mode, restart and then enable wifi, then go to system updates and you will see the 3 options greyed out, disable aeroplane mode by holding down the power button then click on update motorola software and most of the time that has worked for me.
kc_sheets mentioned installing wifi manager, I have installed it but not restarted my phone as I've managed to get it all temporarily working and Ill test the wifi manager when I have to restart.
Let me know if anyone else can get them all working using my method.
For troubleshooting, I know dmesg is good and probably lsmod, what other linux info can help me find out what the issue it, I would not be surprised if sprint has done something to disable wifi, 4g and data as the phone starts up, but it looks like it only disables at the last minute, does anyones wifi connect as you start the phone up, I think mine may have done.
I'm hoping we can just rename the process or app that is the issue and have a non crippled phone what we paid good money for.
Fisher
just flashed the phone and guess what??
wifi working again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! w000ttttttttttttttttt
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after reboot the wifi error starts again.
that means no luck
I'm also out of the States and I just started having wifi issues today. It would see the SSID, try to obtain IP, then fail. I just set a static IP, default gateway, etc... and that did the trick.
jomare711 said:
I'm also out of the States and I just started having wifi issues today. It would see the SSID, try to obtain IP, then fail. I just set a static IP, default gateway, etc... and that did the trick.
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you dont have wifi problems,its your router problem
my problems are with the wifi connection its not even trying to connect or activated its getting an error when i press the wifi button.
Posted on motorolla forum:
Hey guys, same problem - briefly:
Sprint customer - overseas for the next 6 months,
1. OTA update successful, achieved over wifi
2. phone restarted, wifi connectivity lost "error" as with fisher and the rest
3. airplane mode allows wifi connection until GSM is connected again, at which point it gets knocked off
4. I /also/ fat fingered my phone during one of the restarts and had both wifi and GSM working, but it's my nature to test things, so i restarted and of course now it's gone.
5. I am not able to attempt wally's re-register with Sprint approach as I will be away from the states untill January
6. I tried the update sprint zone fix - no luck
7. I tried the disable roaming guards - same as fisher, some of them are green and grayed out, no luck
Thank you !
Before the recent update my wifi will not turn on or off. The switch in settings is greyed out and it constantly says "wifi turning on". The switch in the quick settings panel is also greyed out. Tried re booting several times but the prime boots up already saying wifi turning on. I did do the wpa supplicant mod and it worked perfectly for 5 days. All of a sudden, nothing. I switched back to the original supplicant file. I also updated to .13. And it is still saying wifi turning on. I am Bluetooth tethered right now and it is the only way for me to connect online. Does anybody have suggestions on what might be my problem?
Edit: Also tried switching in and out of airplane mode, switching wifi on/off in power settings widget.
Did you try a hard reset by holding down the bottom volume button while holding down the power button. Keep the buttons down until you read further instructions in the top left corner. This will wipe out every thing so back it up first.
I ended up doing the factory reset through the settings menu and when i booted up the same thing happened WiFi would stay turning on. Used it to set my homescreen up for ten minutes and wifi was still not working. I let it be for a while. I woke it up and it showed wifi connections. Very strange. Much relief after not having wifi for 5 days. Ad hoc networks are showing up as well. Not sure why because I switched back to my original wpa supplicant.
I had the exact same issue :O mine happened when i was connection to a wireless acces point, whilst connecting, my tab rebooted.
After the reboot, i wasn't able to connect or do anything and just like yours, the wifi option was grayed out. And said 'connecting'.
Tried everything.... in the end the only thing which helped was a factory reset :/
odd i'm having the same problem now wifi was always grayed out tried to fix it wound up doing a factory reset but now i'm stuck with the wifi turning on problem. Tried doing another factory reset, restarting switching airplane mode on and off nothing has worked. not really sure what i can do besides waiting to see if it starts to work like yours did. Anyone else seeing this problem and if so how did you solve the problem.
WiFi Stuck Turning On
The WiFi was working just fine and then I had one of the many random reboots-- now no matter how many reboots and airplane mode toggles nothing. I should add I have a BCOKAS series Transformer. Sounds like another factory reset (done that a few of those already with this unit) won't do any good. Really getting tired of this...
Possible Solution
I may have found a solution to the problem of Wifi being stuck turning on. Now i can not promis that this will work for you or that it won't make it worse but i was stuck with the wifi continually "turning on" and no number of cold boots, factory resets, or airplane mode toggles was fixing it. I was just about ready to get a new RMA when i saw this thread and thought i would give it a shot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492887
The first thing i did was go to ASUS support download page and got the current version of my tablets OS (at the time it was the .14 version) I unzipped the file and placed the blob file in the "SDCard" folder on the internal storage.
I then followed the instructions on this tread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492887 of how to intall a different version of the OS on your tablet. Make sure to have the tablet on and USB debugging mode on. Load up adb shell and use the code provided in the thread to update the tablet using the file located on internal storage
It's
su
dd if=/sdcard/blob of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4
This will take a while but when its finished mine returned numbers different then the ones listed on the thread i'm sorry but i was unable to copy them down at the time. I took the chance and rebooted the tablet anyways. (My thought was i was missing some files that would normally be there so the number return was different then say someone just downgrading with all the working file there but i honestly don't know for sure.)
The tablet shutdown fine and rebooted showing the ASUS progress bar this also took several minutes before it finished. Once the tablet finished booting up the wifi was on and i was able to connect to my network with no problems. I was then promptly able to update my tablet to the new version .15 so this will not remove your ability to get updates. This process did not erase anything on my tablet. I had recently done a factory reset so there wasn't many changes i had made, i only installed titanium backup to restore some apps, but when the process was finished all the apps that i had installed remained. Again i can't say if this will be the case every time.
This problem has been driving me nuts for days now making my tablet a nice paper weight, i hope this solution helps to solve this problem for others. Let me know if there are any questions and i will try to be more clear in what i did.
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Changing permissions for /system/bin/wpa_supplicant by using chmod 777 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant and then turning on wifi from settings seemed to work for me, but might not work for others. Please try. (at least there's no need for hard reset)
somebody3928 said:
Changing permissions for /system/bin/wpa_supplicant by using chmod 777 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant and then turning on wifi from settings seemed to work for me, but might not work for others. Please try. (at least there's no need for hard reset)
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how do i apply this ? i need to check it ...
I updated to the latest nightly (9/22) to try and relieve this problem to no avail. I've been running CM Nightlies on my P4 since they've been available. I always manually download them since, for whatever reason, Rom Manager seems to detect my device as the P4-wifi. I assure you the 3G (HSPA) modem works. I have a SIM slot, with SIM that has activated service (UMTS/HSPA). My cell phone is on the same networks and it picks up signal from my carrier fine.
With that out of the way; My issue:
Two days ago, I was leaving my house to visit family, and I wasn't going to bring my charger for my Tab, so I put the device in airplane mode to conserve battery. In hindsight, I should have just asked the device to power off, but that's besides the point. When I tried turning off Airplane mode, the cellular network did not become available again; this situation has not changed since.
What I've done: Rebooted the device after switching out of airplane mode, re-entered airplane mode and left it again, updated to the latest CM. I've opened my tab and reseated the connections for SIM and antenna (at least, the connections I can reseat, I have), I've also completely disconnected power by unplugging the battery and reconnecting it. Additionally, I got into some of the hidden menus and verified that WCDMA, which, I believe is the underlying tech for the local HSPA connection, is preferred to the cell radio.
Looking at the device, if I ask it to check for mobile networks, the list comes back blank. The network status shows "UNKNOWN:0" and the lockscreen shows "NO SERVICE." instead of "NO SIM" (which is what it shows when I remove the SIM). From what I can tell the radio has shut off and will not come back on.
Throughout all this Wifi still works perfectly, so the device isn't useless, however, I'm planning to sell this device and I would like it to be as fully functional as possible when I hand it off to it's next owner, so getting this solved is very important to me. Any and all suggestions are appreciated and I'm basically willing to try anything at this point. I feel as though I've tried everything short of a factory reset, which I'm not sure if that would help (I've even wiped cache and dalvik).
In case it's relevant, I'm in Canada, carrier is Telus.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: I've just finished restoring the device to Stock 4.0.4 (I've used this stock image before when I had issues with the device and confirmed it is fully functional) and I am still having trouble. this points to either a carrier issue or a hardware issue. I will be calling the carrier in the morning, despite believing that this isn't the case. any suggestions on what could be the problem are still welcome, I'm willing to try just about anything at this point.
@Mystik
Back in the CM 4.1.2 days on the e4gt...we had a similiar problem. Now, I don't have you're device. But when this problem arose in the epic. We had a work around where we would turn airplane mode on and power off the device. Then power the device back up. When that didn't work we had to flash a modem, then flash back to the one we wanted.
Also, make sure after you turn off airplane mode.. that the mobile data under settings/more is enabled... sometimes it will not re-enable itself.
Let me know if this works.. if not I would be happy to help you search up a fix..
I installed the NFC Ring Unlock application from McLear on the EZ2 tablet, which seemed to function well with my NFC ring.
I did one thing differently, because I don't like to give my Google master password to a 3-party app , I used an app password specifically for the NFC ring, which I considered to be one-time and didn't write it down
Then I had to fly and put the device in flight mode and powered it off some time later.
Now I get the NFC Ring Unlock screen in flight mode when I power up the device, but I can't get the unlock screen to work (NFC is also switched off in flight mode, didn't realise that and the Google authentication is also not working) and I can't get out of flight mode!
What I tried already:
Resetting the device by voulume-up/power, red button in SD-card and PC-companion connection.
Trying to hit the "normal" unlock screen which appears for a sub-second period.
Contact McLear, but they are flooded at the moment, because of the roll-out of their new products.
But neither of this works because they all depend on unlocking the device first.
Any advice?
If your device is unlocked and you have USB debugging enabled, you should be able to deinstall the App with ADB (Adcvanced Debug Bridge).
I guess that with the locked original Sony Bootloader, this doesn't work, though.
You could do a remote wipe with play device management:
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager?hl=da&u=0
If Sony's software detect it when you connect it to computer, you might also have some options there. I am using Mac and only see repair device ,under the Xperia menu, as a potential solution.
Hey Svan, damn it sucks you are getting stuck by this! Sorry!
1. Did you try posting on the NFC Ring forum?
RE "3-party app" our app never stores your details, we use the Google provided Google Auth libraries to handle the authentication process. I can personally guarantee and promise at no point do we store or use your username/pass, we just get a success/failure callback from them and act accordingly.
2. Is it possible you can use your Google Auth or is your work-around preventing you from doing this?
We're actually just beta testing an updated version of the app that forces users to enter a pin code to handle circumstances such as this. Flight mode and two-form factor auth have been an issue for us so we're taking pro-active steps to address it ASAP This doesn't help you though ;(
3. As BabelHuber asked, do you have debug mode available? If so a simple adb uninstall of the app will get you moving again.
Sorry about the delay through support, I just took another team member on today to help with the backlog, he starts tomorrow so hopefully things will move faster!
Source: I'm the inventor of the NFC Ring
Found a solution
I had a the exact same problem, and luckily I found a solution just in the moment I had already decided to factory reset.
I have the stock rom/bootloader/etc installed, no root.
Well anyway, factory resetting the phone is not an easy task either, so this is what I did to get to the factory reset option in the boot loader:
I pressed power for a loooong time, then the phone shutdown, I pressed power and vol-down for a looong time.
Some kind of boot menu appeared, I chose recovery.
At first I was stuck with a red triangle with an "!" over a lieing android. I found that pressing and holding power for 1 second then, while still pressing power, pressing "vol up" for 1 second and releasing both at once, presented me a special menu, wich contains the factory reset and option ... and also a mysterious "wipe cache" option, which sparked an idea of how I might circumvent the factory reset...
I remebered, that after the last OTA update the phone was so busy after reboot, that the NFC Unlock app was loaded after a long delay, while I was already able to interact with the phone.
So I though what the heck, before factory resetting the device I might as will try wiping that damn cache and see wether that caused the delay.
After wiping the cache, I booted and Android went through all those apps, and then showed the launcher/home screen without the widgets loaded etc, for just long enough to switch off the airplane mode, before the unlock app was loaded and immediately locked the screen again.
It might have helped that I disabled the SIM Card PIN check, i don't know.
Only this time I could unlock it normally :silly:
I hope this helps