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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!!
moselyy said:
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!!
So i'm helping a buddy out that was having an issue with several Note 2's that were purchased from a company that restricted their employees access to a lot of things on the phone. My friend handed a couple off to me. The first one was not passcode locked and it was a breeze (Basically just enabled USB Debugging). It is up and running. The other ones are passcode locked and when you try to go into wipe the data/factory reset from recovery it says "MDM does not allow factory reset". The Note 2 I'm having issues with in particular has a locked bootloader on KitKat 4.4.2 through Verizon.
I've spent almost literally every waking moment trying to find a way around this issue. I may have compounded it though. I discovered ODIN, flashed the stock firmware in the hopes that it would clear the phone. It did not (password was still in place). I then decided to flash the stock firmware with the .Pit file for an SCH-I605 and made sure re-partition was checked as well as erase nand. After the process completed successfully and the phone rebooted it will no longer boot beyond the Verizon screen. I still have access to recovery and download mode but in recovery its throwing out a bunch of command lines such as E:failed to mount /data etc. I've tried to reflash the stock firmware with and without the .pit file to no avail.
In the mean time I've tried to unlock the bootloader, attempted auto root, and install custom recoveries to see if I could some how get around the MDM issue. I've also attempted to install or flash from ADB and its still the same deal.
Anyway I'm tired, kind of exhausted, and not really sure what avenues I have left. That's where I'm hoping some of you guys come in. If you have any questions for me let me know and I'll try to shed some more light on it for you. Data DOES NOT matter to me so if you can think of anyway I can get this thing completely wiped out it so I can start from scratch it would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
Is it just one phone with this problem or several? The mounting issues are becoming more common around here, and seem to be internal memory failure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-2-verizon/help/stuck-boot-file-exists-t3286946
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Is it just one phone with this problem or several? The mounting issues are becoming more common around here, and seem to be internal memory failure.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-2-verizon/help/stuck-boot-file-exists-t3286946
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Well tonight I'll be getting my hands on a couple other test SCH-i605 phones that are in the same situation (Password locked and no ability to wipe from recovery) and I'll put them through the paces to see if I wind up with the same issue and get back with you on it.
The basic issue with this phone is just after trying that repartition with the pit file it doesn't want to boot beyond the verizon logo anymore and thats when it started throwing those errors in recovery. It could be a coincidence I guess.
I've been messing with Heimdall today to see if I could get a custom recovery flashed that way but the phone fails protocol initialization. The only thing I can get to flash to this phone is 4.4.2 and the i605 pit file through ODIN. Nothing else will budge.
I guess the question I really need answered, is there another way to wipe data/factory reset without the option in the stock Samsung recovery and no access beyond the lock screen?
What I have to work with is ODIN mode and whatever is in recovery that is not wipe data/factory reset.
So I did get my hands on a couple other phones with passcode locks that have the MDM lockout within the stock recovery that still fails to flash anything in Odin except the stock 4.4.2 firmware. So I can eliminate the idea its hardware. I have 4 phones here 3 of which have the same issue and the 4th I was lucky enough to not have a passcode. Quick fix to get MDM removed that way.
Again any ideas that are slightly more outside the box would be appreciated. Thanks.
Edit: If this helps the phone that is working that I manage to clean all of that stuff off of also throws the same error in ODIN with or without USB debugging so it leads me to believe there is something I'm actually missing... Time to go read more.
Well, sound like it is more than coincidence. Maybe you should contact Samsung and see if they can help?
Yeah I might do that. I'd just hope they have a one size fits all solution because I have about 600 to 1000 phones to tackle... Hahaha.
The conundrum here is that for the MDM company to release the lock on the phone I have to be able to get beyond the lock screen for the phone to process the request. To get beyond the lock screen I need the psswords that the previous company allowed their employees to put on the phones that for some odd reason they didn't have remove.
Anyway if I get this figured out i'll let you guys know how I got it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Hi there folks,
I've got a bit of a problem here. As there were no answers previously I'm now willing to pay a fair amount of money to the person fixing the problem without damaging my data.
Now to the problem:
I forgot my unlock pattern so my phone encrypted all my data after a few tries. I remembered the pattern but while decrypting something went wrong.
After startup my phone says my data is corrupt and I have to do a hard reset to get it back running.
I'm pretty sure not all of the data is corrupt, so before a hard reset I really have to get my data off of it.
Unfortunetly, the OnePlus 3 is complete stock. No Root, no unlocked bootloader, USB-Debugging disabled.
The only way to get my data that comes to my mind, is to modify an original Oxygen Rom in that way that it ignores the corrupt data during startup.
I am definitly not able to do this, so I would be really happy if there's another way to my data.
I hope for some good ideas
Cheers
i turned off OEM unlock on my rooted s8 like an idiot and turned it off, then when i started it up again i got an error message saying: "Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock." also i really dont wanna lose my data i have not backed up my phone and i have a lot of important stuff in there.
Dang that's the worst kind of fixable issue. You know there's a solution but you try to avoid it at all costs because you don't want to lose the data. If you have backed up stuff over cloud or if the data is stored on memory card, take that out and see if that' intact. if it is, go for broke. There seems to be no other alternative.
I have a phone Ulefone Note 8. It is not my main phone, but I use it occasionally and I have some important data on it.
One time, one of my recordings, that I had on my phone, didn't close well so the file was not saved, I wanted to recover this file later. So, I stopped using this phone for a while. But after I got back to implement data recovery, I was unable to get into my phone, because I forgot my pattern lock. I have tried many combinations, so now I have to wait more than 3800 seconds (this is more than an hour between my lock pattern retries and this time is increasing).
Because of that, I am looking for another way to get into my phone.
I have tried all programs for unlocking my screen lock without losing data on my phone (without hard reset, factory reset).
I am unable to connect to my phone to PC (PC recognize it, but the device is anauthorized, because of the lock, I cannot confirm the connection).
I think that my phone has USB debugging enabled, but there is a problem, that it has set “charging mode” as a default option, but I can't change this option to MTP mode. In order to change this mode, I have to lock my screen. Because of that problem I am unable to use ADB, because the device is unauthorized (because of the screen lock). So. This is also no go situation.
I have also tried to use Android Recovery Mode. I tried to install zip TWRP via Apply update from SD card. No luck, because Signature verification failed.
I tried to install Aroma File Manager. The same problem. I think this is because the Recovery version of my phone is Stock, the phone is not rooted.
I tried to install SU power the same way. No luck also.
The phone has also Fastboot. I tried to boot TWRP image, but image for my phone is too large. If I use some smaller TWRP image file, I get error that I cannot do this command on locked phone (not allowed in locked state).
Now I am out of options. I don’t want to wipe data. I don't want to do hard reset. I know, that this is quick solution, but I don't want to lose data on my phone.
Is there any way to enable MTP mode on my phone remotely?
Or is there some hack to hack into my phone forcefully without losing my data.
Is there some way to do a backup of my files from my locked phone?
Is there a way to save the most of my files, even if I had to perform hard reset?
I would do hard reset, if I would know that my phone could be recovered by a recovery tool without any risk.
Another info. My Ulefone Note 8 phone is using Androd 10. Go edition.
Is there a way to forcefully flash only CWM or TWRP on the locked phone without losing any data from my phone.
Something else. I tried to use Find my device on Google. And Google is able to find my phone, but there is not option just to remove lock, there is only option to erase all data on my phone.
Something else. Is there some program similar to Aroma File Manager, that could remove gesture.key from my phone, but something, that can be opened from Android Recovery on Pattern Locked phone? Note something. I am unable to change my phone settings to MTP because of the pattern screen lock.
Something else. Is it any way to reset the counter of pattern retries so I would be able to draw patterns without long waiting time. Now I have to wait more than one hour to retry another pattern and turning phone off and back on does not help. I know, that on previous Android editions the counter reset itself after turning the phone off or removing the battery, but in this phone (Ulefone Note 8 with Android 10. Go edition.) this is not possible. Another info. This phone has unremovable battery, so I cannot quickly completely remove the power from it.
Is there any hack to unlock my phone without losing data.
I would appreciate any help.
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Unfortunately Google has removed the remote unlock feature (most stupid decision imho)
devices shipped with Android 10 must FBE encrypted. there is no way to break FBE encryption (except bruteforce, with gatekeeper timeout you already facing)
mtkclient can unlock bootloader without wiping data, that will allow you to install TWRP recovery. but that's pointless, without unlock pattern it's impossible to decrypt.
your only chance would be FDE encryption with default_password (very unlikely) you can double check encryption type (90% sure it's FBE)
Sorry for the wrong forum, Oswald.
So. I don't have almost any possibility to get into my phone now.
What if I would perform a factory reset. How many data (rthe cca percentage) would I be able to recover via recovery program. And which program is the best for that.
Something else. Is it possible to copy the whole device (the partition with user data) as an image and put it somewhere for the future (if somebody will invent something that is able to break into the phone (into, the encrypted user data partition)?
When I perform adb shell getprop ro.crypto.type on other (unlocked Ulefone Note 8 - the same model as my locked phone) it returns file. I asume it is FBE then.
So if it is FBE, and apparently it is, this option is out of question.
How then some programs e.g. drFone works on Samsung devices?
Is there something different with these devices that lets e.g. drFone or similar program to unlock them without data loss?
Samsung is much more expensive, so I assume there would be even better security on it.
it's not possible to dump full device. you can dump all android partitions but you can't access TEE where the keystore is.
on factory reset keystore is flushed, there is no way to recover any data afterwards.
either keep device as it is, don't factory reset and don't use it (I doubt there will be way to crack FBE encryption ever). or forget about data and start from scratch.
Wondershare Dr.Fone is scam and does not work on any secure device except few ancient devices. Don't buy their lies about, Samsung devices are most secure devices I know.
What you could have tried is the PUK method, but it works only on already decrypted devices (after first boot unlock) so it's useless in your case (powered off device)
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2022/11/10/accidental-70k-google-pixel-lock-screen-bypass