Last night the battery died on my Tilt 2, I plugged it into my computer to charge, figuring I'd sync it at the same time, and turned it back on. Once the phone powered up, the computer displayed a message saying the phone was locked, and I need to authenticate on the device. No problem, I go to put my code in, it says I used the wrong code, try again this time I'm sure I typed my code. Phone says I entered the wrong code, I keep trying, this goes on until I strike out, it tells me to enter a specific code "a1b2c3" which I do. From this point on, the unlock button does nothing when I press it. No error messages, no unlocking, it just sits there.
At this point, I assume my only option is to do a hard reset, but I'd like to try to avoid that (wouldn't we all, lol). If its my only way to get back onto the phone, I'll do it, just want to explore my options first. Thanks
Yeh i think a HR is the only way out
Do you have a backup of your data? PIM backup is good
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Hi & Thanks,
Been using my XDAll for the past few years, had to get the new Flame.
Had a few days, getting used to it, battery ran down. No biggie,
put it back on the charger. After few hours turned it on, just blue
O2 screen, turned it off, back on & half the screen had data, the bottom
half was empty. Shut it off & did hard restart. After coming up, the phone
would not connect. Error message - A wireless radio must be attached -
have done everything & can not get it back. Had not picked up a mem
card no backup and upon resync to pc, the sync data deleted itself, was
in disbelief. SIM ok, rest of unit looks ok, can not find Phone program in
Windows, No IMEI # only small boxes. Does anyone have any ideas ??
Thanks
Take it back and get a new one.
Hey guys how's it going?
Story:
My little cousin borrowed her old HTC Desire S to a friend.
This said friend, might have changed the Google Account and activated a Lock screen-Pattern, although she claims "I didn't change anything".
She claims, her sister tried to access the Phone while she was in school but couldn't, because of the Pattern Lock, so it locked up.
My little Cousin had a similar problem before (she knew her pattern but somehow it didn't recognize it and locked it. I unlocked it with the Android Device manager, since it didn't work with her Google Account).
She hasn't put a new Lock screen-Security Pattern/PIN/Password since then.
What I did so far:
tried putting in the Google Account Information of my Cousin
tried it with the Android Device Manager, but it couldn't even find the phone
tried entering the Recovery to perform a factory reset, but it just boots up normally
tried gaining information on How-to re-flash stock firmware but all I've found, required you to get into "HBoot" for relevant Information (which I can't access somehow)
So, is there anything I can try to regain access to the Phone, I don't already have?
It would most likely be a back-up phone, so, if it's lost, it's nothing too bad but, I mean, it cost quite some back in the day...So yeah, would be cool if you guys have a solution!
Thank you in advance for reading this post and thinking about/providing a solution!
MstrBubbles
EDIT: I forgot to mention, that my PC doesn't even recognise the Phone properly. It finds a removable Drive but it says "Put in a storage Device in the removable drive(H)" and if I want to save disconnect the device, there is only ". . ." listed and it doesn't do anything. I assume it is in "Charge-Only mode" or something.
Oh and it's connected to my Wi-Fi but it wont install apps (through Play Store in my PC Browser), since I tried one of those "remove Lock-screen" apps.
Pull the battery out for 15 seconds then put back in then press and hold volume down + power button. That should get u into bootloader and there u can try factory reset or if all fails try a ruu.
Hi there.
I have a Sony D6603 where the screen has been broken. The phone starts up and you can feel it responding to commands, the screen backlight comes on but no text etc
My problem is this. The phone was stolen last month but a tip off allowed me to get it back. We know the culprit but he keeps demanding the phone back as he has important data on it. We said no we would give it to police. However the police say they cannot go thru the phone and that I need to get the data off to show them. This culprit is so desperate for the phone that he attempted to break in the house to steal the phone back!
Problems -
When connected to computer, it shows the phone as a drive but is blank
No way to turn USB debugging on (Is there a way of using some sort of recovery to get files off even though I cannot access the debugging screen to turn it on?
This is very important so any help will be appriciated :good:
This is hilarious
Have you tried enabling File transfer after plugging your phone in? The phone is shown bank when file transfer is not enabled.
1974darrenh said:
Hi there.
I have a Sony D6603 where the screen has been broken. The phone starts up and you can feel it responding to commands, the screen backlight comes on but no text etc
My problem is this. The phone was stolen last month but a tip off allowed me to get it back. We know the culprit but he keeps demanding the phone back as he has important data on it. We said no we would give it to police. However the police say they cannot go thru the phone and that I need to get the data off to show them. This culprit is so desperate for the phone that he attempted to break in the house to steal the phone back!
Problems -
When connected to computer, it shows the phone as a drive but is blank
No way to turn USB debugging on (Is there a way of using some sort of recovery to get files off even though I cannot access the debugging screen to turn it on?
This is very important so any help will be appriciated :good:
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Can't you film yourself doing a factory reset then suggest they sue you for losing data on your phone whilst it was stolen.
I have actually had to do this with a Z3 with a dead screen. If it is encrypted however you will have no luck so don't even try as it will force a factory reset and you lose everything.
Use this to install TWRP recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/general/recovery-root-mm-575-291-lb-t3435214
Follow the OP exactly and you will have recovery.
Boot to recovery (when rebooting press the down volume key at the first green light) and then use adb (TWRP now has this) to command TWRP to commence a data backup: http://www.pocketables.com/2014/10/using-twrps-new-adb-interface.html
(or if you can just extract the data with adb directly this will also work, but I don't see it as a command.)
As far as I know if you use flashtool and TWRP you won't need to use the screen and with TWRP's adb interface you should have more luck getting the data.
Good luck - careful when you get the data that you don't break any weird laws for looking at it. Might be a breach of his privacy blah blah. Anyway he's very stupid for using a stolen phone for sensitive data....
Hi,
Yesterday I set a fingerprint lock on my S7. It prompted me to enter a backup password and some other password, both with different requirements (one only had to be 4 letters, one was longer and had a number) and the longer one had to be confirmed whereas the shorter one did not. I set this up and tested it a few times, everything seemed to work great. Later I let my phone idle and it turned the screen off on its own for the first time, ever since then the phone has not been able to recognize my fingerprint. It doesn't even say "No match", it just acts like I'm not even putting a finger on it at all.
Tried over and over and eventually tried the backup password, which for some reason is the shorter one without a number. I put in what I am absolutely sure I put in, and it wouldn't take it. Tried a couple more times, even got so desperate as to emulate potential typing errors I might have made (since no confirmation for that password) and nothing worked.
Eventually I hit the timed lockout and I had to stop trying things then. So I went online and searched and discovered Google's Android Device Manager. I heard that if you lock the phone with it you can unlock it through the same manager and the phone will be unlocked. First thing that was odd was that ADM didn't give me an option to enter a password, just a contact message and phone number. I still put in a message and hit lock, and... nothing changed on ADM at all.
Now my phone shows the stupid message every time I wake it up and every few seconds on the lock screen (I can still attempt to unlock the phone with the password and use phone/camera though), but ADM doesn't even give an option to unlock, just change the locked message. I can't even get rid of the damn lock by changing it to blank. I heard Samsung offers a similar service but I never made a Samsung account and apparently one is required to use it.
Beyond that the only solution I've found is wiping the phone (which I can easily do, because there's an option in ADM for it which presumably works), which I really don't want to do since I have a lot of pictures and data on the phone that aren't backed up that I would absolutely hate to lose.
To make things worse it appears that this issue is specific to my phone/the S7/Samsung phones/something, as I have my old Nexus 4 listed in ADM as well and going through the options for it I see it has the ability to define a password, but no such thing for the S7. I really have no clue where to go from here, tons of googling hasn't found me any method I haven't already tried or can't do.
I'd be so grateful if someone here would at the very least find a way for me to recover data before wiping it to get rid of the lock.
TL;DR - Phone will not accept correct encrypt password. Need to dump data partition to computer and decrypt from there, or something like that.
So I have a Nokia 6.1 from 2018 that I used for just about a year. I upgraded to a nicer phone during summer 2019, at which point I transferred all the data I thought I needed, turned the power off, put the phone on a shelf and forgot about it for many months. I remember when I last powered it down, the battery was fully charged. Quite some time later I realized I needed to retrieve some important data written down in an old OneNote account that was synced with that phone and nothing else. Upon logging in, I discovered Microsoft had wiped the account clean due to an extended period of inactivity, meaning the only copy of that data now exists on that phone and nowhere else.
When I dug out the phone and tried to power it up, the battery was completely flat. I plugged it in and it booted up okay, but it would not accept the passphrase to unlock. I can only assume this is due to some sort of bug in Android (I believe it is running 9 Pie, but I don't remember for certain), as I know for a fact the password is correct. I've been putting off trying to unlock this thing for over a year now, but it needs to be done. I've noticed over my several attempts to enter the password that the phone has been behaving somewhat erratically. For example, it doesn't always respond to the power button right away. I'll try to press it again, and the screen will blink on and off several times. Also, when I first tried to unlock the phone, I could enter the passphrase as many times as I wanted, but now when I try, it locks me out for 30 seconds after each attempt, and also notifies me of the total number of failed attempts. When I reboot the phone, the failed attempt counter resets to zero.
Do I have any recourse here? Since I know the passphrase, is it possible to dump the encrypted data partition to my computer and decrypt it from there? The phone is not rooted, nor does it have any custom ROMs or anything like that. I appreciate any help anyone can give.
Quick addendum, I attempted to sideload the final OTA update sourced from the Nokia OTA Repository on Telegram onto the phone via recovery mode. It is running Android 10 now but still no luck unlocking. Interestingly, however, the failed attempt counter now appears to be working correctly, indicating I have entered the incorrect passphrase 31 times now. I'm not sure how many more times I can do that before it wipes everything.