Hello everyone! I've been checking a lot on internet about what is happening to my S3 and after trying so many things I seriously ran out of ideas of what to do. I hope someone can help as I am really desperate. So far it was working perfectly but after last software update, when I am going to put the pattern to unblock the phone and use it, its not responding. Some times, not many really, after few attempts its working again but after gets block again i am having the same problem.
I'm not blaming the update cos i couldn't find anyone with the same problem. The only thing I did is that I tried to unlock it using Odin and Voodoo Galaxy SIII Unlock but I couldn´t after doing all the proccess (root included) so I used SuperSU to unroot it and I did again the unlock with a network code that a friend gave me, which shouldn't be a problem as, let's say, its a cleanest way to do it. I don't know, as I said I'm totally out of ideas and lost of what to do but its a nightmare try to use your phone and the tactile screen is not responding. Any ideas?
Thanks in advanced!
No ideas at all or suggestions?
Well, after all i have fixed it without any of this "genius" around here. The firmware downloaded from this website it didn't work properly and it was giving me this issue on my phone. I've installed a stock firmware reseting the flash counter and now its working without that problem any more. Thank you for aaalll your help!
Ok, so I have a serious problem... My phone is locked and when I touch the text bar to enter the password, no keyboard comes up. Important information:
- I just upgraded to jelly bean (the official one that came out today)
- as far as I can tell, everything is working fine, i just can't unlock it
- when I touch the text bar, it makes a noise, but no keyboard comes up
- was working fine immediately after the upgrade
- I got done fixing some settings and locked the screen
- this may have something to do with changing the default keyboard to Google Keyboard (it was acting a little funny immidiately after, like it was crashing)
- I have Android Lost installed, the unlock function isn't working, but others do work
- phone is encrypted
Unless someone has some ideas for me within the next couple hours, I'm going to wipe the phone. Obviously, I would prefer to not do that.
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I've managed to use Android Lost to make some backups of some stuff, but I'm still trying to figure out how to unlock the screen. I've found that I'm able to install apps remotely from google play if that gives gives anyone some ideas.
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I had another idea. If this is a problem with the keyboard, is there a way for me to change it remotely? Can I install another one via the store?
Alright... I gave up on trying to get passed the lock screen and tried doing a factory reset. I was afraid of the super brick issue, so instead of doing a wipe in recovery mode, I used Kies to reflash it. However, that did nothing. The phone started back up and acted like nothing happened. It asked me for the same password, then got to the lock screen and had the same keyboard issue.
I've tried various roms, but nothing seems to wipe the encrypted information properly. At some point, I got it to forget the password, but it still thinks that one exists. I even rooted it and tried shostock3, but when it boots, it asks for a password. The old password doesn't work, so I can't get passed it. I tried entering the "wrong" password many times and it said it would wipe the phone, but it just restarted to the SAMSUNG boot screen and just sat there. I pulled the battery after half an hour...
I should note that stock gingerbread seems to work fine...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to wipe the encrypted data?
If you can push apps to it, try pushing an app like no lock or something.
Short answer: No.
It is probable that encryption information is stored in the efs (encrypted file system) folder. That's where the imei and other critical stuff is stored. I don't believe anyone who posts here in the I777 forum really has a grasp on how phone encryption works though. I've only seen one other person post here who had an issue with an encrypted phone, and he was unable to solve his problem as far as I know.
If you have a proper backup of the efs partition from before the phone was encrypted, it is possible that you could solve the problem by restoring that partition. But I'm not even sure you could write to that section of the phone memory with adb with the phone in it's current state. Edit: if you can boot into stock gingerbread normally, then you can restore an efs backup, if you have one.
I'm guessing you could send it to Samsung and they could fix it for you probably.
I finally got it working. I'm not sure what combination of things did it, but I had to restore it to stock jelly bean (via kies) to get it to wipe the encryption. I guess the stock rom knows how to properly wipe it when you keep entering the wrong password. After I got it all cleaned up, I put shostock3 back on. When the battery charges back up, I'm going to try encrypting it again (in shostock).
However, now I found another issue (may or may not be a real problem). I wanted to check if the phone was still unlocked, so I dialed *#SIMLOCK# and it says "Connection problem or invalid MMI code."
Tada!
Creepy, my good friend, would be referring to me and as you know SCIU I didn't ever get it to unlock the phone. Oddly enough a stock ICS rom (my mom now has my phone right up the road so I may try this to see if it will work and then go back to ShoStock3) works fine. I have nothing hidden from the phone storage, everything shows up, it is actually unlocked and rooted though not a custom bios err firmware/ROM because when that is put on there the encryption issues come back and the password is asked for. If the correct password is entered (and my KEYBOARD comes up but I didn't change it from the Android/Samsung one) it proceeds to enter whatever it is supposed to (my guess is the POST area like on a computer when it is entering Windows/Linux, etc.) but the screen stays black (ShoStock logo doesn't even appear if I remember correctly or it does show then goes to black loading screen with the Samsung logo and that is it, perm stuck). However I did try flashing back to Gingerbread ROMs and ICS ROMs though not through official KIES.
SCIU I may have to give this a try if my mom don't mind it and see if that helps fix the problem. Thanks for starting this thread. I am sorry I didn't respond to the PM you sent me (my LGOG, Triple OG, OG, TRIPLE OG, Optimus G AT&T Phone has screen cracked twice and is unresponsive on two different phones so I sent that in to warranty repair [rapid heating and cooling issues]) and haven't been on XDA for a week. If there is anything else you need to ask or bounce ideas off of me then I am all for it.
As far as encryption goes, the process works the same as any other encryption algorithms used (MD5/HASH/SHA-!, etc.) using a basic replica of most file systems although mobile storage tends to work a tad differently. Unfortunately, the freezer trick, brute force, nor any other cracking methods I was able to try at home worked to get it to open up. I tried getting into the EFS area of the phone but never could get to the directory or have it display.
Again thanks SCIU and as I stated I may give this a try if my mom don't care.
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i've the same problem here but i cann't use kies when my phone is locked .... so what can i do??
rawan-omer said:
i've the same problem here but i cann't use kies when my phone is locked .... so what can i do??
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You can get the full stock jelly bean Odin flashable tar in the Download Repository. See link in my signature. According to sciguy125, flashing stock jb and then inputting repeatedly the wrong password will clear it. I'm not sure how many times it takes, 5 or 10 I think. I've never worked with an encrypted phone. I'm just repeating what I have read others say. I've seen the above posted by at least one other person. You should be able to flash the stock firmware using Odin. The one you want is I777UCMD8
my phone screen is locked (with word password) , Huawei, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!!
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my phone screen is locked (with word password) , Huawei, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!!
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Friend, this is the forum for the S2 (Samsung), so you won't find anything about Huawei devices here - best to ask your question in the forum for your device.
That being said if you are rooted and have a custom recovery, simply power the device off and boot into recovery and perform a factory reset from there. If that doesn't work do a full wipe (this means wiping /system), then re-flash the ROM/gapps.
me too!!! do you have some tips for me?? i almost fainted when i knew that the keyboard isnt working.... i do have a lot of important files in my phone.
Easy, you fools! JUST KIDDING lol Connect an external keyboard. Restart the phone with the keyboard plugged in and you'll have one chance to input the pass every time you restart. Good luck, bosses!
my phone screen is locked (with word password) , SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 3V, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!
My sumsang keyboard has stopped I cannot do nothing because is secure by password can you help please
I got the same problem but everything on my phone is fine except it doesn't let me enter the password I dnt wanna factory reset it cause I got important pictures in it any suggestions on how to get my keyboard working.
Solution that worked for me
Hello all,
I usually don't post things around, but something told me to do this, since I don't see any threads talking about this solution.
My solution was the following:
Went to google play store on my computer via chrome. Logged in to the user attached to my play store and re-installed all keyboard apps I have.
That worked beautifully and hope this helps other people!!
Hi everyone,
I'm sorry if ever I'm posting this on the wrong section cause I'm not sure if this is a problem from android or samsung.
I'm not good at all when it comes to phone troubleshooting so I will try my luck and ask questions about what have happened to my phone just awhile ago. I got this phone from Japan(Samsung Galaxy SII Wimax isw11sc) months ago and I only use it for multimedia purposes as it is region locked and I am at another country atm. everything is running fine until my phone asked for a software update(not really sure what upgrade that was) and I decided to give it a shot and let it download the updates. I left it to do some chores and when I came back to check on it, it reboot looped itself on the AU(mobile phone company from japan) logo.
I did some research and found some things like hard reset and download mode. I tried to do the hard reset(power/home/volume up) method but I can't seem to access the settings instead, the phone keeps on showing me this "Preparing for S/W update. Please wait." after a few seconds, the phone will reset itself back to the reboot loop.
I tried to do the download mode using odin mode but then, I realized that my phone and computer won' connect via USB port because well, my phone won't boot. Also downloaded the manual driver but my pc won't recognize it.(win7 if that helps.)
Please tell me what have happened and what I can do to fix this problem, I don't really care if i lose everything that I have stored on my phone, I just want it to work again. Help will be much appreciated, Thank you.
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Hi guys, quick information:
Yesterday tried to autoroot my s7 edge with chain fires autoroot. Unfortunately I heard that it wont work on latest firmware after I tried to root it.
So I just wanted to reset my whole Phone. (Accidently) Downloaded wrong Firmware, tried to install it with odin. didnt work. writing failure. Boot loop.
Left it over night (kept it loading over night). Woke up. Phone is VERY hot. Couldnt touch it. ok. removed cable. cool down.
Ok. Noticed I picked wrong one. Downloaded correct one tried again. Didn't work.
Phone wont let me hard reset (wipe cache/ Home Button + Volume Up + Power Button doesnt work)-
Can't even get to Boot Logo-
Can only get into download mode but screen goes black after a while.
Everytime I try to install the stock firmware , progress bars in odin and on phone goes to a third and then phone screen goes black and the bar doesnt move at all. if i normally try to boot it this text shows up: an error has occurred while updating the device software. use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software. Cant use it because it want me to use a serial number i dont have / people on internet said its iemi number but it wont work. on videos on yt i saw people with iemi number AND serial number. in my buying papers no information about this serial number. not on my backcover of my phone.
Don't know what to do.. please anyone help
Information about Phone: SM-G935F
First remove your imei. Never post that openly on a forum or you could end up getting your device cloned.
The serial number is on the box.
You might have very well full bricked your device. Flashing the wrong firmware is a short road to a brick.
The buttons won't work due to partially written software. The wrong software at that.
Your only hope is finding the box and flashing the right software or you will have to send it in for repairs which might cost you a bit.
zelendel said:
First remove your imei. Never post that openly on a forum or you could end up getting your device cloned.
The serial number is on the box.
You might have very well full bricked your device. Flashing the wrong firmware is a short road to a brick.
The buttons won't work due to partially written software. The wrong software at that.
Your only hope is finding the box and flashing the right software or you will have to send it in for repairs which might cost you a bit.
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sry found a topic with same problem. I guess my s7 edge is now a piece of scrap laying around. no way to fix it.
Laune_ said:
[SORRY FOR TITLE BUT IT DIDNT WORK FOR ME LIKE 10 TIMES]
Hi guys, quick information:
Yesterday tried to autoroot my s7 edge with chain fires autoroot. Unfortunately I heard that it wont work on latest firmware after I tried to root it.
So I just wanted to reset my whole Phone. (Accidently) Downloaded wrong Firmware, tried to install it with odin. didnt work. writing failure. Boot loop.
Left it over night (kept it loading over night). Woke up. Phone is VERY hot. Couldnt touch it. ok. removed cable. cool down.
Ok. Noticed I picked wrong one. Downloaded correct one tried again. Didn't work.
Phone wont let me hard reset (wipe cache/ Home Button + Volume Up + Power Button doesnt work)-
Can't even get to Boot Logo-
Can only get into download mode but screen goes black after a while.
Everytime I try to install the stock firmware , progress bars in odin and on phone goes to a third and then phone screen goes black and the bar doesnt move at all. if i normally try to boot it this text shows up: an error has occurred while updating the device software. use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software. Cant use it because it want me to use a serial number i dont have / people on internet said its iemi number but it wont work. on videos on yt i saw people with iemi number AND serial number. in my buying papers no information about this serial number. not on my backcover of my phone.
Don't know what to do.. please anyone help
Information about Phone: SM-G935F
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Okay Guys, small update: Just Made my phone work again.
Had no opportunity to install stock firmware somehow for a long time- Tried to install TWRP multiple times with odin failed alot.
Worked a few minutes ago. Why it didnt work? Download Mode stops after a while.
So TWRP installed- Now i can finally open Recovery mode. It told me that there was no os installed. true. I tried to install my os again. it worked.. soo. yea.
what do we learn?
dont root if you dont know anything about your phone :good:
sincerly,
me, the noob.
Hello everyone,
Here's my situation. My grandson has a ZTE N9132 phone and he did a factory reset on it. But since he did that he can't get the phone working. He asked if I could fix it. I tried turning it on and it comes up and starts running. The first thing it says is something to the effect of "This phone has been factory reset. You need to log onto the last active account to continue." (looks like that is a google thing) Well, long story made short, he can't remember his login information.
My question is, is there anything I can do to get this phone up and running again? I was trying to root the phone using KingRoot but I have to enable "USB Debugging" and I can't get into that because of the google thing wanting account information. I really need your help since he thinks grampa acn fix anything.
Thank you very much in advance.