From last 7 days I'm unable to use my phone as it won't unlock despite entering correct pattern. I even entered recovery mode & bingo it accepted the pattern. I don't want to wipe data for no fault of mine. Realme kindly help. I can't even enable USB debugging or else i would've tried to retrieve my data. Google find my phone is useless as no option to change password. Why should I suffer & be forced to lose my documents, camera photos, 2fas due to no fault? Please help.
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Hi at all!
After yesterdays update over WiFi (don't know which exactly, but I think it's MiUI8 6.9.8) my Redmi Note 3 (Qualcomm, 32GB) wouldn't let me unlock the device neither with fingerprint nor pattern. Before I updated it was normally unlocking. Normally I use fingerprint, so at first I thought i forgot the pattern, but after several attempts the phone went into lock mode. I am 99% sure I know the right pattern, but it won't unlock.
I already read this guide: http://en.miui.com/thread-5684-1-1.html and tried this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAPEhH5z-8
But I have still several problems:
- USB debugging not enabled
- no recovery installed
- no root or open bootloader or anything like that
- no backup of all photos, which are on the phone itself and not on the SD card (I just came back from holidays)
- no cloud or similar backup
- Mi Pc Suite does not detect phone
- Google Device Manager states "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password that you entered won't be needed." if I try the send a new lockscreen.
This method (with flash afterwards) could help me, I guess, but I still would loose everything: http://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/guide-reboot-to-edl-mode-fastboot-test-t3398718
I have absolutely no idea how i can unlock my phone without loosing any data (especially the photos).
Please if anyone has an Idea, help me!
Same happened to me so I restored my backup, once the restore had finished I removed the finger print and pin number (I had read about this on the xiaomi Forum). Then did the update again and this time it was OK
sounds easy, how did you restore the backup?
Before restoring any backup, I suggest you hard restart your phone. long press the power button.
but if I make a Hard Reset I will loss everything on the phone.
Is there maybe a possibility to insert some sort of file or command via EDL mode, that USB debbuging will be enabled? http://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/guide-reboot-to-edl-mode-fastboot-test-t3398718
No not the hard reset. I was talking about hard restart. The phone will just restart.
ahh I see, sorry my fault.
But nonetheless I din't made any backup ever with this phone.
same problem here
my phone redmi note 3(qualcomm 32gb) is also locked just yesterday ! it shows try again after 120 minutes and after the time completed it shows pattern and it will be locked again and shows the same dialouge after trying my correct password ! actually we shoud get forgot password option behind the emergency option ! please do give a reply to me if you find any solution it means a lot to me !
Well I am afraid I can't help you either... after searching for 2 days I found no solution and flashed my phone. so all data was lost...
In Android 9 Pie (and earlier versions) there is a setting ‘Secure startup’, which is applicable in case of full device encryption (which comes by default in all new Android phones AFAIK). When ‘Require password when device turns on’ is enabled, the password must be entered at phone start and the phone won’t boot if no password is entered. When the other option ‘Do not require’ is enabled the phone starts and I can even receive phone calls, I just cannot unlock the phone.
So my question is: if ‘Require password when device turns on’ is NOT enabled – does this mean that my phone is NOT encrypted and if for example gets stolen, the thief will be able to download all my data to a PC (without unlocking the phone)? If this is true this seems like an absurdly easy way to bypass full device encryption...
Your data is encrypted by default. You can have it set to not encrypt it but it is not something I would advice of you.
As for the secure start up. As long as you have a locked bootloader and a password there are less then .01% of people that can hack into your device.
zelendel said:
Your data is encrypted by default. You can have it set to not encrypt it but it is not something I would advice of you.
As for the secure start up. As long as you have a locked bootloader and a password there are less then .01% of people that can hack into your device.
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My phone is rooted and the bootloader is not locked AFAIK (it's Exynos).
I am not asking about bruteforce and other hacking techniques that could be used, I am just asking whether my phone is encrypted after boot and before the screen is unlocked.
Yes it is encrypted. Has been since the day you first day Bought it.
OK, but how come then my phone boots and is almost fully operational when ‘Require password when device turns on’ is NOT enabled (e.g. I can receive phone calls, calendar events pop up on screen - although I cannot see what they are all about because the screen is locked)?
orifori said:
OK, but how come then my phone boots and is almost fully operational when ‘Require password when device turns on’ is NOT enabled (e.g. I can receive phone calls, calendar events pop up on screen - although I cannot see what they are all about because the screen is locked)?
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Think of it as safe mode on PC. Not everything or all permissions are allowed when booting like that. It just a security feature and has nothing to do with encryption. It just locks out some info from being seen without the password.
Ill be honest with you. If you are worried about your data then dont be too worried. Unless you are someone important then your device is only useful for how much the hardware will get. Let me tell you how a phone theft goes.
1. Phone Stolen
2. Sim card removed
3. Device reset
4. If its locked then take it home and flash an OS to it or sell it to a pawn shop that is questionable.
Now the first 3 are normally done before you even know your device is gone (less then a minute)
Encryption bypass / Android (10) security issue after first unlock
zelendel said:
Yes it is encrypted. Has been since the day you first day Bought it.
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I have discovered another security issue on a rooted device:
On my Magisk-rooted and encrypted Note 10+/Exynos (Android 10) I just found out, that the userdata (data/data ) partition is UNENCRYPTED and fully readable when viewed with an ADB viewer from my PC although the device is in lockscreen mode / locked!
This doesn't happen after reboot before the first unlock! After the device has been unlocked, accessed via ADB and re-locked (but not rebooted) it is (still) unencrypted, even after rebooting the PC!
Here the lockscreen password would not make much sense at every screenlock - it just unlocks the screen which can be bypassed and all data can be read via ADB anyway - it would only make sense once at boot. Is there a way to have two passwords (1 at boot and an easier one at screenlock) for example?
Is this a known bug? / Any ideas?
Hi all, hoping you knowledgeable folk can help.
Unfortunately my Pixel 3 was stolen today. The phone was setup with an alphanumeric password to unlock the device, so I know from that sense the device is protected. I cannot locate the device and have sent an erase command from the Android device admin page and changed just about every password I can think of.
What I'm really worried about is could someone with the right knowledge access my personal data on the phone? It's my fault, but I had left ADB debugging enabled for some work stuff and I'm worried that some could gain access to the information - apps, photos, notes etc - stored on the device without too much effort.
The device was enrolled in an Android for Work / Android enterprise and I know that after 6 failed password attempts my work profile will remove itself from the phone, but I'm not sure what happens after that. I am assuming the password to unlock the device stays as is on the phone.
The phone was not rooted and completely stock.
Can someone please let me know if the thief could access the data on the phone, perhaps via USB? There is so much personal info on there I am terrified of what someone with access could do.
thanks for your help.
1. Hi , if your phone is stolen with adb option enabled , the person who stole your device can easy remove password and access to your phone !
2. If that person does not understand something in the removal of the password whe will probably do " Factory Reset " after that hi will face another problem and that is FRP ( Factory Reset protection ) this means that to access to the phone he need to put Google Account which was registred on the phone before he do Factory Reset .
3. In that way solution is to send him to some service to remove frp protection or if he know easy trick to bypass frp protection he got full access to device .
4. Even if he do factory reset and data is removed still is on internal phone memory which can be recovered whit some special tool or software .
5. In this case your options is :
a) International Mobile Equipment Identity ( IMEI )
With 15 digits numbers from your cell phone for example 358206/08/2260178 you can report to Police that your cell phone is stolen and give then information what model is , which collor , etc... This information if you don't know you can find from imei .
One of the site that you can use is : https://www.imei.info/
b) Another way if your device is not factory reset is if you had Android Manager enabled to the settings , login to your Google account , go to paired device and see if is Online and ip location or place where is device , also police can trace your device by IP adress but device must to be conected to the internet!
c) If your device was stolen to the public or in the place which has security camera ask some of those people if can help you by giving you video from security camera to see who is that person and with that video go to police in order to try to identify that person.
Good luck ....
** PLEASE UNDERSTAND -- I'M LOOKING TO PRESERVE THE DATA, NOT RESET THE PHONE AND ERASE EVERYTHING**
My daughter, unexpectedly, passed away last month and I just received the phone from the investigators. I didn't know her PIN but want to preserve any data.
My daughter's phone displays "Your phone is encrypted for security. To start up your device, enter your PIN." A number of attempts at the PIN has left me with 3 attempts before it resets to factory default settings.
When I contacted AT&T for help, they directed me to Samsung. The Samsung technician directed me to a YouTube video that claims to download the data, perform a factory reset and then restores the data. It seems very sketchy to me and would rather talk to the experts here.
I have rooted phones in the past but it's been 4+ years. I am very cautious about trying anything that would jeopardize losing the data for good.
I have seen one video that demonstrates unlocking the PIN by installing TWRP, browsing with the File Manager to /data/system/ and renaming whichever file is associated with the PIN (ie. gatekeeper.password.key, gatekeeper.pattern.key, etc.). I don't know how to install TWRP if her phone doesn't have USB Debugging enabled. She and I have identical phones so I am willing to try anything on my phone prior to trying it on her phone.
** NOTE ** Through some trickery of swapping SIM cards, I was able to reset her Google password having Google text a code which has to be entered in order to set a new password.
Hello,
I have a realme 7 pro and this morning, after I turned it on, I entered the required password after rebooting and it rejected it.
The last time I used the phone was yesterday and I neither changed the password (it has been the same for months), nor did update.
How on earth is this possible?
I have never modified the system files since I bought the phone (no modding) and the bootloader is still locked (that's why I think I can't access the fast boot mode).
I can only access engineering mode and recovery mode.
Thank you in advance for your help.
thisisabyz said:
Hello,
I have a realme 7 pro and this morning, after I turned it on, I entered the required password after rebooting and it rejected it.
The last time I used the phone was yesterday and I neither changed the password (it has been the same for months), nor did update.
How on earth is this possible?
I have never modified the system files since I bought the phone (no modding) and the bootloader is still locked (that's why I think I can't access the fast boot mode).
I can only access engineering mode and recovery mode.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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That's strange. Phone rejects the password even if it entered correctly if someone has tried to enter the password incorrectly earlier without your knowldge.
Please allow some time and then enter it again.
mvikrant97 said:
That's strange. Phone rejects the password even if it entered correctly if someone has tried to enter the password incorrectly earlier without your knowldge.
Please allow some time and then enter it again.
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First of all, thank you for your reply!
I wasn't aware of this defense mechanism of smartphones, however to my knowledge no one has tried to access my phone by mistaking the password...
In any case, I will wait 24 hours without making any further attempts and then try again to enter it
I just tried again but nothing.
To your knowledge is there any company that performs such unlocks? I am only interested in recovering the data which is very important, otherwise I would have formatted it....
thisisabyz said:
I just tried again but nothing.
To your knowledge is there any company that performs such unlocks? I am only interested in recovering the data which is very important, otherwise I would have formatted it....
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There are a few problems with such requests:
They often come from people with stolen devices (knowingly or not, no judgements here)
It's borderline illegal, which contests our 'do not get us in trouble' rule
There's often payment involved with such services (and rarely any guarantees), also against our rules
You'll find several "tools" to "help you" but they are often bundled with malicious software
In short, though we do support some good old exploit sparring, the topic resides in a dark corner. Nonetheless it's good to ask around, perhaps there's other people with the same problem (2 years after release, unlikely) or someone has heard of a rare bug related to the matter.
IMHO your best bet would be getting in touch with Realme (find them here). Definitely keep us updated if you do!
I also have this Realme 7 Pro (issue/bug? IDK) since January 11, 2023
I have set face recognition but useless after rebooting phone.
In Realme UI recovery mode v1.2, before using any commands like
1. Install from storage
2. Online update
3. Wipe data
Phone asks for lockscreen password FIRST. Even PIN is what I set.
Also I need to recover my data first before doing ALL Methods to gain access again.
Please help us.
Edit: I just add more details about mine.
RMX2170
Android 11
non rooted, I dont have plan to modify first.
That's why I did not enable "USB Debugging" before I encountered this "lockscreen PIN problem". Which is I need right now to establish connection between android & pc.
(Forgot password is also useless they just recommend to bring this to Service Center to factory reset but, goodbye files.)
exdeeei said:
1. Install from storage
2. Online update
3. Wipe data
Phone asks for lockscreen password FIRST. Even PIN is what I set.
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It also applies to me
exdeeei said:
RMX2170
Android 11
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My model is also RMX2170 but i have Android 12.
exdeeei said:
That's why I did not enable "USB Debugging" before I encountered this "lockscreen PIN problem". Which is I need right now to establish connection between android & pc.
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Unfortunately, I am also in this situation, I can basically only use *#899#
For now, I contacted Realme who referred me to a local shop. I have contacted them but am still waiting for a response. I have a hunch that we will lose the data....
If the device is encrypted, you can not access data without unlock. Maybe Realme have something they can flash to EDL to unlock the phone and access data….