My LG G8X, (LM-G850QM) purchased at B & H Photo , was updated today to Android 10 today.
After rebooting the lock screen did not have a keyboard on it so I was unable to log in.
Needless to say both LG and T-Mobile (my carrier) customer support were useless.
In this mode the LG cannot be rebooted into bootloader without ADB.
What caused the issue is that I was not using the standard Android keyboard as my default keyboard.
After the new update the keyboard app was asking for permission to access the phone and because the phone was on the lock screen the pop up didn't come up so the keyboard app didn't work.
This causes a lock screen without a keyboard. Major Problem.
If you are already in this situation there is a simple solution. Connect a USB On the Go hub to the phone and plug a standard USB keyboard into the hub and type your password on the USB keyboard.
To prevent this from happening, before installing the update, change your default keyboard app back to the original keyboard app that came with the phone.
After the update you can changed the default keyboard app back.
I have the same model and my default keyboard is SwiftKey Keyboard - phone updated to Android 10 yesterday without the issue you experienced. I use numeric pin and also have fingerprint unlock set up - maybe your setup is different?
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Yesterday I rooted my LG Thrive (part of the Optimus One family) and everything went fine. I was playing around with overclocking and removing bloatware using ROM Toolbox. Eventually however, I realized I wanted to remove some AT&T bloatware apps from initial startup. I was able to disable some through the program, but when doing so the app was freezing and I would just press the zoom button to return and then continue disabling additional apps. In doing so however, I'm certain this messed things up big time. I restarted my phone to see if these disabled apps would still start. The unlock screen came up but the touchscreen was inactive (it wouldn't respond to touch anywhere) as were any of the buttons on the phone (even the power button). I'm guessing I disabled quite an important startup service somehow along the lines. This is the same situtation in safe mode.
I was able to unlock the phone if I receive a text or call, then the touchscreen becomes active and allows me to unlock and use the phone. However, there is no desktop - it's a black screen with taskbar on top. The messaging app works as well as the device receives emails. But aside from the taskbar on the top, there's nothing.
I don't know where to go from here. Do I just try to install cyanogenmod over everything - if so, could someone point me in the right direciton? (I'm running a linux system as my desktop in case someone suggets a program to use for flashing). Or is there a simple fix to this issue I caused?
Thanks everyone!
So the other day I downloaded a "Null Keyboard" app for my Flyer because I was having a bad experience with my bluetooth keyboard and the commenting engines on certain websites.
One thing I noticed was that having selected the "Null Keyboard" input method, when my flyer went to sleep after a period of inactivity and I tried to get back in, I was unable to enter the PIN to get back into my tablet because the "Null Keyboard" was still active.
Luckily, the tablet still recognized my bluetooth keyboard, so I was able to get back in. But it kinda scared me, so I've uninstalled the app (it didn't really help with the websites anyway).
My question is: assuming I had lost my bluetooth keyboard would I be able to get back into my tablet any way? If you shut down the tablet by holding the power button, then bring it back up, will it revert to the stock "Sense" soft keyboard, or would I be screwed?
The keyboard should not disable your touch screen. Null KB is not needed with the Flyer.
Turning off the KB will disconnect it from the Flyer.
I got my TFP yesterday and it was working beatifully until I connected the keydock which came with it. I had already updated the OS, and it connected and told me it was charging. However neither the touchpad nor the keyboard created any response(not even the funtion keys). After trying to reconnect it rebooting and factory resetting it a number of times the keyboard,touchpad and usb port has never worked once, except keypresses(on the keyboard) bringing up the context menu when I set right click to open context menu in the asus settings list. Is there any way this could be software?
I'm kind of desperate now since these tablets are not easy to come by in Norway, Asus suggested me sending it in as DOA which would mean sending in both the dock and tablet and not getting a replacement until the 22 of february...
My corporate exchange activesync policy requires my phone to have a PIN. I am used to having "no lockscreen", but without a lockscreen, the phone gives me no opportunity to enter the PIN. So you are just locked there with the time and weather. Fortunately you can hold down the power button to restart. So now I have a lockscreen, at least until I install a custom ROM (which typically disables the PIN policy).
I am unlocked and rooted. Not sure if this is a "feature" of the original ROM or if I installed an app that messed it up.
My only previous Android was the One X+, but it had a custom ROM which disabled the PIN requirement, so I don't know if it behaved this way or not.
An update--this problem started occurring even with a lock-screen. It would not show the keypad to enter the PIN.
I was using Smart Keyboard Pro. Switched back to HTC Sense Input and the problem seems to have gone away.
dl said:
An update--this problem started occurring even with a lock-screen. It would not show the keypad to enter the PIN.
I was using Smart Keyboard Pro. Switched back to HTC Sense Input and the problem seems to have gone away.
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it's the other keyboard i had the same problem with Swype before i purchased via Google Play. i too reverted to the HTC Sense keyboard and the disappearing key-pad issue went away. the newest paid version of Swype doesn't have the same issue.
Hey guys
I'm trying to recover data from a broken Verizon Galaxy Note II, here are the details:
Stock OS & Recovery, never modded in anyway except possibly OTA updates
Powers up & has working battery
Blank, black display
Unresponsive or at least no vibration feedback to touch & pen input
Vibration feedback to button input
USB Debugging was probably never enabled
PIN code lock screen probably active. Friend thinks he remembers the pin
Is there anyway to remote into the phone via PC, or possibly use ADB to dump all the data from the phone?
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Hey guys
I'm trying to recover data from a broken Verizon Galaxy Note II, here are the details:
Stock OS & Recovery, never modded in anyway except possibly OTA updates
Powers up & has working battery
Blank, black display
Unresponsive or at least no vibration feedback to touch & pen input
Vibration feedback to button input
USB Debugging was probably never enabled
PIN code lock screen probably active. Friend thinks he remembers the pin
Is there anyway to remote into the phone via PC, or possibly use ADB to dump all the data from the phone?
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Not without root. Data requires root excess, so thats not possible.. I believe remote PC requires it as well, but I am not for certain. Was everything on the internal sdcard? Or external? Does the phone come up when you plug it into the PC? What exactly are you trying to recover..
cbo329 said:
Hey guys
I'm trying to recover data from a broken Verizon Galaxy Note II, here are the details:
Stock OS & Recovery, never modded in anyway except possibly OTA updates
Powers up & has working battery
Blank, black display
Unresponsive or at least no vibration feedback to touch & pen input
Vibration feedback to button input
USB Debugging was probably never enabled
PIN code lock screen probably active. Friend thinks he remembers the pin
Is there anyway to remote into the phone via PC, or possibly use ADB to dump all the data from the phone?
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with the fact that the display doesn't work, and Debugging isn't enabled(even if it was, you'd have to verify the RSA fingerprint via the prompt). MAYBE try booting it into recovery and see if adb works that way, then you can just do an "adb pull /" to pull every single thing off the phone, or specific folders by changing / to the directory.
If that doesn't work, your only real option is swapping your internals into a Note 2 with a working display and using that to do it.