So I have this Sony Xperia Ultra XL39 Indian variant which is locked with password (Not PIN or Pattern) and I have to get access to the internal storage to pull out some images, voice recordings and SMS as it's really important to me. Trust me won't bother so much if it wasn't that important and would have done a factory reset. Is there any way to bypass this password? I am on stock and this phone has never been tampered with in terms of rooting or installing any custom recovery. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure if you use the PC companion by Sony it will ask if you want to back up your files and it will place a factory IMG on the phone.
Related
Hi! I have an (annoying) situation here, i recently bought a phone (bottom), the phone has been wiped of all apps, however, the last person (the seller) didn't do a FULL factory reset, so his Google account is still the primary.
I know you can remove the primary account via factory reset, but there seems to some sort of PIN/password, you dont need a pin/password to unlock the phone (from sleep), the screen asking for a pin also popes up when i tried to apply a lockscreen password
Ive emailed the seller already, but he takes a long time to respond, and i hate to wait.
i know theres specialized hardware like Riff-Box, but this phones waterproof and i dont want to break any seals
Ive also tried to do a root, but kentai/japanese phones have tight security with a small amount of hackers (link to root bellow)
Anyway, my question is that is there anyway to get that pin out of the phone/disable/remove it WITHOUT rooting or cracking the case open
eg software hacks
ive already tried the ADB methods, which require a root, and i have a copy of SDK with proper ADB drivers if anyone has any complex suggestions
Phone
-Sharp SH-06D [normal, NOT the NERV edition]
-internationally unlocked by DoCoMo
-running an unrooted 2.3.5 and (obviously) stock ROM
Thread on unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735254
Software/phone ADB driver
https://sh-dev.sharp.co.jp/android/modules/driver_eng/
FYI i have full acess to everything except the reset, password, and superuser/SU
Hello guys,
first of all sorry for the dummy question, but I don't know how I can solve this problem. so...
I have changed the pattern sequence of my phone with a complicated one. when doing that, I saved a screenshot of the sequence but, instead to put it to the sd card as a though, the phone saved it on the internal memory (damn!).
After some days my phone has been restarted and now is asking for the pattern that I have forgot because I used to unlock it for days via the damn fingerprint!
I tried via google to unlock the phone with no luck.
There is no developer mode active on the phone, and when I connect an usb cable I can't put it to usb mode because it asks to put the unlock sequence.
Is there a way to unlock the phone or a way to get the screenshot from the internal memory? obviously I want to avoid to hard reset and lost everything.
I think hard resetting from recovery menu is the best possible option. I don't think there is a way to bypass the security honestly. I'm sorry but I think that resetting is the best option here
if you could bypass the pattern there wouldnt be any point to having the pattern in the first place. everything on your phone is encrypted. the pattern is the encryption key. just ask the fbi how upset they were about this.
Hello everybody.
my question is a little bit noobish, is losing a phone with locked bootloader have any security benefits?
like if it's lost or stolen can the thief access my data ?? can he use the phone after formatting it ??
i really need to know it, and my English is not very good as i tried to search for any updated topic about this matter and i couldn't find such thing
On locked bootloader, he can't access your data as your storage is encrypted and any attempt to unlock the bootloader will wipe the storage out. Even if he does some kind of a factory reset, he will still come to the point where he needs a password to unlock the phone after a reset. So no, he can't really use the phone if the bootloader is locked.
MiZoSpaDe said:
Hello everybody.
my question is a little bit noobish, is losing a phone with locked bootloader have any security benefits?
like if it's lost or stolen can the thief access my data ?? can he use the phone after formatting it ??
i really need to know it, and my English is not very good as i tried to search for any updated topic about this matter and i couldn't find such thing
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
With locked bootloader, the thief will not be able to use the phone at all if you have it in secure lock screen.
With unlocked bootloader if you are encrypted (not flashing fde) he will be able to use the phone but will never have access to your data.
With unlocked bootloader and unencrypted (by flashing fde) he will be able to use the phone AND have access to your data.
Thanks guys very helpful, I needed to know the risks... Many thanks [emoji4]
Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk
Eventually you can unlock the phone, without using FDE, and backup/flash/restore with an USB-OTG cable and a USB drive, so your data will be encrypted but you still can "play" with your phone. That's what I did.
Good afternoon. I forgot the password for lockscreen. (and yes I'm not normal) I did not attach importance to this password, and I thought that a hard reset from recovery will always help me. But still, how can I restore it? Naturally, I did not have time to unlock the bootloader. Technical support says only their service center can help me. I just live in such a place that it’s impossible for me to get to them. Are there any solutions?
Sorry for google translate =)
Restore what?
If you don't have the password for the lockscreen it is very difficult if not impossible to gain access to the device.
Repair centre can reinitialize your device by completely reflashing it (low level flash) which also, naturally, wipes the device clean.
Like the title says, my father just passed and we're locked out of his phone.
Don't want to factory reset the phone because all of his accounts are on there in apps and we're not able to figure out if we missed anything. Worried about upcoming bills and then any stocks or trades he did only in apps.
Currently the phone is requiring a pattern unlock and I've unsuccessfully been able to guess it so it kind of locked us out of doing anything. Can't even power off or reset it.
It's also saying "unlock the phone to use fingerprints." Does that mean even if we were to somehow guess the pattern would we still need the fingerprint to open the phone?
Is there a way we can bypass any of this? I looked into some programs and downloaded them but they all said they would erase the data if we removed the pattern unlock.
I have access to his Gmail via a tablet that we knew the pin code for but haven't been able to reset the password just yet. Not sure if having the google account password available will help us unlock the phone or not?
Any help or links to tutorials would greatly be appreciated.
By sheer luck I was able to guess the swipe unlock pattern so the phone is now unlocked for me. Mods can delete this thread if they want.