Hi, so i recently installed pixel experience on my poco f1, everything was good and i had pixel on my phone, but i got an ota update that made the phone charging slowly so i decided to flash my old rom which was working fine. But i forgot to delete my passwords and i didnt flash disable_forceEncryption bc i thought that i didnt have to flash it because my phone was already encrypted with pe.
The problem comes when i flash again my rom to get downgrade, when it boots appeared that i had to put a password to get into the phone, i tried to put my old one but it said that was incorrect. So i saw that i had to format data in my recovery to avoid that, so thats why i tried to did, but when i try to get into twrp, appeared that i need a password too .
I tried as before my old password, also tried with default_password and with password, nothing worked. If i remember well in the log said that it was unable to decrypt with default password, i didnt have my usb debugging enabled bc i had a new rom which i couldn get into as i said before, so for me my phone was basically dead bc the only way to revive him in that status is with edl mode.
But suddennly dont know how in one of reboots, my phone gets into the recovery without password, i read the log and it said that it was able to decrypt with the old password wtf... Anyone knows why this happened? i mean why i could get into the recovery if it was asking for a password and then suddenly he could skip that password when before it couldnt??
P.S: thanks for your attention and sorry for my english :/
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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!!
Hey all,
I decided to encrypt my phone this morning (CM10.2, security->encryption). The phone does its thing, asks me for my PIN, and then goes and completes the encryption.
When it starts up again it says "type password to decrypt storage"? I put in my pin but it doesnt recognize it! I tried to use CWM to wipe dalvik/factory reset/etc. but nothing fixed it.
I then followed the instructions for tSilenzio and did a factory reset. The reset worked, but it STILL ASKS ME FOR THE DAMN PASSWORD WHEN IT STARTS. To make it worse, now I can't get back into CWM.
I never had a password set, only a pin. How can I fix this? I cant get into the phone anymore.
Andronikus
andronikus said:
Hey all,
I decided to encrypt my phone this morning (CM10.2, security->encryption). The phone does its thing, asks me for my PIN, and then goes and completes the encryption.
When it starts up again it says "type password to decrypt storage"? I put in my pin but it doesnt recognize it! I tried to use CWM to wipe dalvik/factory reset/etc. but nothing fixed it.
I then followed the instructions for tSilenzio and did a factory reset. The reset worked, but it STILL ASKS ME FOR THE DAMN PASSWORD WHEN IT STARTS. To make it worse, now I can't get back into CWM.
I never had a password set, only a pin. How can I fix this? I cant get into the phone anymore.
Andronikus
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just try password continuosly.. and see if it erases every thing.. or sideload other roms and flash them..
andronikus said:
Hey all,
I decided to encrypt my phone this morning (CM10.2, security->encryption). The phone does its thing, asks me for my PIN, and then goes and completes the encryption.
When it starts up again it says "type password to decrypt storage"? I put in my pin but it doesnt recognize it! I tried to use CWM to wipe dalvik/factory reset/etc. but nothing fixed it.
I then followed the instructions for tSilenzio and did a factory reset. The reset worked, but it STILL ASKS ME FOR THE DAMN PASSWORD WHEN IT STARTS. To make it worse, now I can't get back into CWM.
I never had a password set, only a pin. How can I fix this? I cant get into the phone anymore.
Andronikus
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If I were you i will give up on everything that's on my internal storage and install stock LG 4.1.2 through LGPNST. This deletes everything so probably that can help to get your phone back.
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If I were you i will give up on everything that's on my internal storage and install stock LG 4.1.2 through LGPNST. This deletes everything so probably that can help to get your phone back.
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I did this via tSilenzio's guide (pastebin.com/ksfdhjGz). I flashed LGE970ATT-V20j-Stock.bin and lgnpst_ls970.dll using LGNPST. When it finished flashing at 67% it loaded with the ATT logo but it still says "type password to decrypt storage" when it boots up.
Did I miss a step somewhere?
Ok, I managed to fix it.
After flashing back to stock I pressed power+volume-down and did a hard reset. Booted right up.
Thanks.
Password wanted by TWRP and I rooted my phone with Click To Root, I never gave them a password and when I try to do a Factory reset their screen comes up. to wipe, restore, and other utilities such as that. As far as the pass word goes I cant remember that and don't ever put one in just for this reason. Click to root support sucks because if I want to chat with an analyst it cost like $34.00 and they have a email support which I have heard nothing back from. also my screen is saying I have an available system update, I don't know if this has anything to do with the password?
This is likely due to encryption being enabled. Nothing to do with an update being available. Speaking of, do not attempt the update in that manner if you have a custom recovery. The best way would be to back up your data to a computer and use whatever method that the manufacturer of your phone has to update via PC. Since you didn't mention what phone and which update, I can't be more specific.
Hi devs,
2 weeks ago I unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP and flashed Pixel Experience Rom with Magisk Manager on the Poco.
Since 1 week ago I was having 4G connectivity issues and decided to re-flash the Pixel Experience Rom on my Poco F1.
After finishing flashing it (without deleteing anything, dirty flashing) I rebooted the Poco and it asked for a password so I used the one I used before, but it says it´s wrong. I tried to go back to twrp to make a ful wipe and perform a clean install but TWRP also asks for password and also says it´s incorrect. So I´m unable to mount the storage and to flash anything.
Now the situation goes even worse, I´m unable to find my phone while in TWRP or fastboot mode in my pc while connected because probably USB debbuging option is not on.
So my device is locked, I am unable to unlock it, to delete anything or to flash anything. Not even ADB can find my poco on Fastboot mode.
I´ve been trying to solve the problem in this 2 days but got no solution. Please if you know how to solve the issue let me know,
Thank you
midelro said:
Hi devs,
2 weeks ago I unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP and flashed Pixel Experience Rom with Magisk Manager on the Poco.
Since 1 week ago I was having 4G connectivity issues and decided to re-flash the Pixel Experience Rom on my Poco F1.
After finishing flashing it (without deleteing anything, dirty flashing) I rebooted the Poco and it asked for a password so I used the one I used before, but it says it´s wrong. I tried to go back to twrp to make a ful wipe and perform a clean install but TWRP also asks for password and also says it´s incorrect. So I´m unable to mount the storage and to flash anything.
Now the situation goes even worse, I´m unable to find my phone while in TWRP or fastboot mode in my pc while connected because probably USB debbuging option is not on.
So my device is locked, I am unable to unlock it, to delete anything or to flash anything. Not even ADB can find my poco on Fastboot mode.
I´ve been trying to solve the problem in this 2 days but got no solution. Please if you know how to solve the issue let me know,
Thank you
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flash stock rom using XiaomiFlash
midelro said:
Hi devs,
2 weeks ago I unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP and flashed Pixel Experience Rom with Magisk Manager on the Poco.
Since 1 week ago I was having 4G connectivity issues and decided to re-flash the Pixel Experience Rom on my Poco F1.
After finishing flashing it (without deleteing anything, dirty flashing) I rebooted the Poco and it asked for a password so I used the one I used before, but it says it´s wrong. I tried to go back to twrp to make a ful wipe and perform a clean install but TWRP also asks for password and also says it´s incorrect. So I´m unable to mount the storage and to flash anything.
Now the situation goes even worse, I´m unable to find my phone while in TWRP or fastboot mode in my pc while connected because probably USB debbuging option is not on.
So my device is locked, I am unable to unlock it, to delete anything or to flash anything. Not even ADB can find my poco on Fastboot mode.
I´ve been trying to solve the problem in this 2 days but got no solution. Please if you know how to solve the issue let me know,
Thank you
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Clear data in twrp. Not in advance wipe next to advance wipe option. Your device is encrypted.
I am currently facing the same problem. Did you find any solution?
Yep, you need to open TWRP and format the partitions to another file format that is not EXT4 and then back to EXT4, then you are able to access the storage and install another rom
Hello XDA,
First time poster, sorry if anything isn't up to code,
I have a Huawei mate 10 lite device, battery died, I put it on the charger, Turned it on,
Got a message saying Android System, User data locked,
Pattern must be entered after device restart,
which is ok, only problem is, touch screen isn't working for some reason,
I tried connecting it to the computer, detects it as a C.D rom for some reason,
I downloaded Hisuite, does not dtect it while its turned on, Tried the recovery option in the program, advised me to go into Fastboot mode, which I did, at which point it did detect it,
Advised me to press recover and that it might take some time,
I didn't,
The device has a lot of data on it, important stuff, that I unfortuntley didn't backup else where,
I worry that Hisuite might end up formatting it during recovery,
Which brings us to my question,
Will Hisuite delete my data if I recover?,
If so, is there anyway to extract the data or fix this error without having to format?
Would really appreciate the help,
Thanksin advance.