Hi, I'm having troubles with my Galaxy S7. I had recently changed my pattern lock to a pin lock and when I had to take my EOC's today I was required to turn my phone off. When I had turned my phone back on I was met with the pattern lock screen. I had attempted to put in my old pattern but it keeps telling me that it is invalid. After a few tries, it had told me that I only have 9 attempts left before it deletes all of my information. Has anyone else dealt with this? Do I have to take it to the T-Mobile store? Or is there something I can do at home?
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First of all, I know this has been posted before regarding other devices, but I couldn't find anything about this phone.
Here's the deal, my friend passed away on Friday night, and suicide was highly suspected. His parents very much want to be able to unlock his phone and find any reasons that may point to suicide. They have exhausted all of the pattern lock attempts possible, so now it's stuck at the recovery option.
The phone is definitely on stock, and most likely hasn't been rooted. When I try to unlock it, I can see the actual homescreen in the background before the password recovery screen pops up. The phone is still active, so I can call it and text it if that can help bypass the lock screen in any way.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Wellp, none of the glitch methods I found online seemed to work. But I did manage to get into the phone.
I realized that Firefox/Chrome/Whatever will probably have his password for gmail saved. So his parents let me on his laptop and I managed to find his gmail password in the saved passwords and reset his pattern lock.
Hi all,
I've got water damage on my phone (Samsung galaxy note 4). It seems like it turns on fine, but the screen is totally black and unresponsive. I am trying to make a backup with adb, but it wants me to unlock the screen. I have a security patter which I remember, is there a way I can send the security pattern to unlock the phone through adb? I have seen it is possible with password.
Any help is appreciated!
Hello,
I'm pretty good at computers but when it comes to phones I'm a dummy. I set a password in my Galaxy S5 running samsung-stang5litre edition 5.0 I just bought this phone and it had this ROM installed. I looked up instructions online for this phone to remove it (settings are not working or showing for this ROM) for this phone model and there are no instructions for this ROM. How do I remove the password or do I have to reset this phone ? If I reset the phone will it still ask for the password ? The person who sold me this phone also changed how this ROM looks and deleted almost every program out of it before I bought it. Please help me.
Found help
Since no one answered back I contacted someone to help me. I'd have never figured this out by myself. I'm so glad for his help. This is what worked.
What you have to do to remove that pin, go to Settings>Lock Screen> Screen Lock> Pattern> Setup any pattern, then setup Pin Code with it after you setup the Pattern. (You already have a Pin set in, just use it). It will ask you to type it in twice.
Now Power Off and Power On the phone it will ask for the pattern, do 5 to 6 wrong patterns, it might time you out for 30 seconds after that, on the bottom right of the phone it will say "use your Pin Code", hit that button, type in the Pin which you already setup while you were setting up your pattern, then use that Pin Code to unlock the phone. Now Power Off and Power On the phone, you shouldn't have any pin or pattern code to unlock anymore.
This worked for me.
Hi all!
This is my first post, but not for a happy reason.
Briefly, I took my Asus Zenfone 4 screen (broken) to exchange.
The technician (friend that I trust) asked me my unlock pass (PIN) and unlock screen pass too, to restart it for tests. He removed the passwords to work freely. Restarted the phone 2 times, everything ok.
The problem (a bit desperate) is that now, supposedly for no reason, we can't access phone. Says: To start your Android, enter your PIN (Pin, not password, just numbers). Seems like smartphone took a PIN itself.
We tried old PIN few times but says that 3 more attempts and the data will be deleted (!!).
(Note: I had App Lock installed and protected almost all important apps with the same Pin, but I think there's nothing to do with this problem).
The only solution will be reset the system?? Unfortunately I have some files without backup that I can't lose.
There is any original Pin?
Any help is welcomed! Thank you so much!
My friend had an unathorized access to her phone, a spouse bypassed her screen lock and I want to find out how was he able to do that so she can better secure herself. Her smartphone is Xiaomi Redmi 6A, software up to date.
So here's what happend. Her spouse sneaked inside her room during the night, took her phone (we know because sim and sd card were missing in the morning) and somehow bypassed the screen lock, accesed her facebook messenger, took some screen shots and then sent it to her (sort of blackmail purpose). I was also surprised to find out in the morning that "she" viewed my last message at 5 am with no reply, but turned out it was her spouse. He hasn't removed the lock, she had no idea he accessed it until reading his messages later on.
As far as I'm aware of, there is no possible solution to bypass the lock in a modern phone such as redmi 6A, without doing a hard reset and especially, without leaving the lock in place.
Any idea how was he able to access it in that scenario? Taking her sim and sd card might have something to do with it, but I have no idea. All I can think of is that he simply guessed the screen lock password, it was only 4 digits (android show the dots informing how many you should enter). And my guess is that it wasn't his first try.