GT-I9023 continuously reboots - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all,
Yesterday evening my Nexus S started to continually reboot, sometimes getting as far as the Launcher, sometimes not. I've tried removing the SIM, it doesn't help. I'm not sure what recovery mode is supposed to do, but it reboots out of that too. I never rooted it or anything; is there something I can try before I go for the factory reset?
Best,
Danny.

simple answer : factory reset

try reboot into safe mode, by long pressing power off in the power menu. if this doesn't work, then factory reset. DO NOT PIRATE APPS! because this is what happens when you try to save a few cents by pirating.

Billchen0014 said:
try reboot into safe mode, by long pressing power off in the power menu. if this doesn't work, then factory reset. DO NOT PIRATE APPS! because this is what happens when you try to save a few cents by pirating.
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Safe mode survives for about a second before it reboots again.
I've never pirated apps.
I think it's time to do a factory reset while I ponder the stupidity of doing an sms backup and leaving the backup file on the phone.

shpalman75 said:
Safe mode survives for about a second before it reboots again.
I've never pirated apps.
I think it's time to do a factory reset while I ponder the stupidity of doing an sms backup and leaving the backup file on the phone.
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I'm afraid you will have to do a factory reset, but I would advise you to just root your phone! It's very easy nowadays, and it only gives you a win-win situation. Of course only if you use your phone normally.
Greetzz, Jojoost

jojoost said:
I'm afraid you will have to do a factory reset, but I would advise you to just root your phone! It's very easy nowadays, and it only gives you a win-win situation. Of course only if you use your phone normally.
Greetzz, Jojoost
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Yes, I was thinking about rooting if I have to do a factory reset anyway. Actually I spent yesterday trying to figure out if there was a way to access the internal "sd card" from recovery mode using adb, but I wasn't getting anywhere with that, and now the phone looks like it needs the attentions of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393 (does anyone know if that works under gentoo rather than ubuntu?)
The phone's halfway through a two year contract so there's a small chance that someone might fix it for me for free on Monday morning, whatever I just need it to be in a usable state on Tuesday morning because I have to go and do a scientific experiment at a synchrotron.

shpalman75 said:
Yes, I was thinking about rooting if I have to do a factory reset anyway. Actually I spent yesterday trying to figure out if there was a way to access the internal "sd card" from recovery mode using adb, but I wasn't getting anywhere with that, and now the phone looks like it needs the attentions of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393 (does anyone know if that works under gentoo rather than ubuntu?)
The phone's halfway through a two year contract so there's a small chance that someone might fix it for me for free on Monday morning, whatever I just need it to be in a usable state on Tuesday morning because I have to go and do a scientific experiment at a synchrotron.
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My advice would be: try backing up whatever you need, there are some free backup apps out there. Then if you don't want to void warranty, root your phone and install titanium backup. The paid version allows you to set schedules that it will backup your phone. In case something like this happens again, you will not have the same problem.
Sent from my Nexus S

Billchen0014 said:
DO NOT PIRATE APPS! because this is what happens when you try to save a few cents by pirating.
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we finally have evidence that pirated files causes hardware defects!

The UnBrickable thing didn't detect it, so I took it to get fixed under guarantee. It's now Somebody Else's Problem. Thanks for the suggestions.

lostman.it said:
we finally have evidence that pirated files causes hardware defects!
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Don't be stupid now.

kwibis said:
My advice would be: try backing up whatever you need, there are some free backup apps out there. Then if you don't want to void warranty, root your phone and install titanium backup. The paid version allows you to set schedules that it will backup your phone. In case something like this happens again, you will not have the same problem.
Sent from my Nexus S
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I finally got it back today...

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Sudden issues with my phone

I've had this phone since the day it released and generally had no problems with it. But a couple months ago, I started having issues with the home screen loading the icons up every time I went to home. Random reboots for no reason, too. I read that it seemed to be a common issues for the phone, so I thought I'd wait for Gingerbread. But today the phone wasn't begin responsive when I tried to text, so I tried rebooting and now it's stuck on the endless reboot. It seems the only way to stop this is to get it to factory reset itself, but I'm hoping I don't have to do that because the phone did a factory reset by itself a month ago and I don't want to deal with starting over again. Is there another trick to it?
Maybe I'm better off getting it replaced. Are the newer models free of all these glitches or is it all still more or less a crapshoot with the problems I've had, screen bleeding, ect?
Just so it's out there, I rooted my phone with SuperOneClick, but I didn't flash or install any roms.
yea i would sumtimes u just get a bad phone when u flash it!! but i'd try another rom and see what that does!!!
But I never flashed it to begin with. It this happened 6 moths after already having the phone.
But if I can fix it by flashing it, maybe I'll try that. I've been wanting to try that cyanogenmod since it's lookign better than my stock froyo.
Yea I would flash it b4 tryin a new1...n if that doesn't wrk then u no what to do
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If I flash it, is my phone going to reset itself anyway? Totally new to this.
yup thats y i always flash lol
If you have Clockworkmod Recovery try to just clear the Dalvik Cache. Reboot loops are usually Dalvik Cache issues. The first boot after clearing the cache can take around 5 minutes so be patient.
I went ahead and factory reset it, since I have never flashed it or have any of those apps. If I decide to look into installing Cyanogenmon on my phone, where should I start reading to get all the information to learn how to do it? I've rooted my phone, but that's it. I've stuck to pretty much what was on the phone.
C16MkII said:
I went ahead and factory reset it, since I have never flashed it or have any of those apps. If I decide to look into installing Cyanogenmon on my phone, where should I start reading to get all the information to learn how to do it? I've rooted my phone, but that's it. I've stuck to pretty much what was on the phone.
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If you rooted it, that means you installed Clockworkmod Recovery. To install CM7 you download the zip package, go into recovery, do a factory reset and wipe the dalvik cache, format the system and flash the zip you got from CM.
I rooted it in Superoneclick though, I don't know if I have Clockworkmod recorvery, unless it's not supposed to show up in the app tray like Superuser does.
Isn't there a way to backup my current state on my phone so I keep all my settings in place? I'll probably get into this tomorrow after work.
Check out tgagunmans nvflash method to get cwm 5.0.2.0 on your phone in dev section.
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Alright, now it's really ****ing up and pissing me off. I haven't done anything new to it. I was browsing the Market today and now I see that the home button doesn't work at all, I can't snap any pictures, there's no screen lock screen, I can't even change it to airplane mode when holding power, it only gives me the off option. What happened to this thing?
C16MkII said:
Alright, now it's really ****ing up and pissing me off. I haven't done anything new to it. I was browsing the Market today and now I see that the home button doesn't work at all, I can't snap any pictures, there's no screen lock screen, I can't even change it to airplane mode when holding power, it only gives me the off option. What happened to this thing?
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Have you loaded a lot of apps that autorun when you turn on the phone? Many do and you could be unaware of that. If too many apps are running, or a badly programmed app is running, it can cause issues such as this with your phone.
Also, it sounds like you are still on Froyo with the old baseband. You might want to consider factory resetting it again and running the LG Updater to get GB and the new baseband. Then use the One Click Flasher to install Clockwordmod so you can do backups (basically snapshots of the current state of your device) and then you can play around with alternate roms.
if that doesn't fix it then your device is defective. If you have a warranty you might just want to get a swap going on it.
Yeah, I'm still stuck on Froyo. Is the LG Updater working now? Last I read, it was bricking phones. If it works now, I'm guessing my plan should be:
Factory reset
Use LG Updater
Use One Click Flasher to Install Clockworkmod
Install a rom (Cyanogenmod)
Alot of this terminology is totally new to me, so I'm totally lost reading these tutorials that seem to rely on knowing what these terms mean.
Anyway, would be nice to get rid of all these errors. I can't even install anything from the marketplace anymore, I get a force close.
Alright, tooling around on Cyanogenmod 7 now. I don't like that it doesn't have the LG camera or Swype, so I switched to Weapon G2X. Liking it. Any other recommendations?
Weapon G2x is awesome i keep coming back to it my self.... but for the record i've only owned my phone for about a month and i havn't had any problems at all with i love actually .. i just can't find a kernel that doesn't mess things up back on subject i pretty sure GB took care of most of the problems people were having with the phone i don't know if they did any hardware updates to the newer models
Yeah, it's great. The only issue I have is that Swype doesn't give me a list of alternatives when I double tap a word, so I need to re-Swype the word "if" when it was supposed to be the word "of".
Last question, Can I make multiple backups with Flashworkmod? Now that I've fully set up all my phone, apps and fully configured all my settings, I wanted to back it up to this point so my personalized settings are still accessible. Or is it only one backup?
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Yeah, it's great. The only issue I have is that Swype doesn't give me a list of alternatives when I double tap a word, so I need to re-Swype the word "if" when it was supposed to be the word "of".
Last question, Can I make multiple backups with Flashworkmod? Now that I've fully set up all my phone, apps and fully configured all my settings, I wanted to back it up to this point so my personalized settings are still accessible. Or is it only one backup?
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Do you mean Clockworkmod Recovery? The backups are coded by date and time so you can make as many as you want. Consider each one a snapshot of the exact state of the device at the time you made the backup. It will be restored exactly the same.
Yeah, whoops. Clockworkmod Recovery. Thanks for the help!
jboxer said:
Do you mean Clockworkmod Recovery? The backups are coded by date and time so you can make as many as you want. Consider each one a snapshot of the exact state of the device at the time you made the backup. It will be restored exactly the same.
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Should I be deleting old back ups how much memory does each back up take?
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[Q] Is That Possible (About an android phone)

Hello. I'm a little paranoid here. Please help me.
I was trying to update my Samsung Galaxy mini (s5570) with kies. Electricity went off while "downloading" image was on the screen. I panicked and remove phone's battery and make it off. (I don't know why)
Since then I have black screen. I can't get into recovery mode etc. But when I plug in the phone, pc sees it. Kies fails repairing it.
Phone has a 7digit screen lock and avast anti theft installed. If I gave it somebody to repair, can he repair and read the smses inside it? The data on the phone is not important to lose, but I don't want somebody read my sms. Is it possible?
anaczugo said:
Hello. I'm a little paranoid here. Please help me.
I was trying to update my Samsung Galaxy mini (s5570) with kies. Electricity went off while "downloading" image was on the screen. I panicked and remove phone's battery and make it off. (I don't know why)
Since then I have black screen. I can't get into recovery mode etc. But when I plug in the phone, pc sees it. Kies fails repairing it.
Phone has a 7digit screen lock and avast anti theft installed. If I gave it somebody to repair, can he repair and read the smses inside it? The data on the phone is not important to lose, but I don't want somebody read my sms. Is it possible?
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Is it possible? Maybe but no repair shop would do it. Can you get into download mode? You most likely corrupted the software and it may need to be jtaged
zelendel said:
Is it possible? Maybe but no repair shop would do it. Can you get into download mode? You most likely corrupted the software and it may need to be jtaged
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thank you for your answer.
So, it is possible to read the texts in a probably bricked, password protected and anti theft app installed phone, if I get it right?
anaczugo said:
thank you for your answer.
So, it is possible to read the texts in a probably bricked, password protected and anti theft app installed phone, if I get it right?
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Anti theft apps really dont work if someone knows what they are doing. If the computer can see it then it is possible to pull the info from the phone. It will not be easy but it can be done. Passwords have no use unless the phone is on.
zelendel said:
Anti theft apps really dont work if someone knows what they are doing. If the computer can see it then it is possible to pull the info from the phone. It will not be easy but it can be done. Passwords have no use unless the phone is on.
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Is it possible to wipe it myself? I searched web but I couldn't menage to find something. I can't get the phone recovery or downloading mode. is it still possible to delete the things in?
anaczugo said:
Is it possible to wipe it myself? I searched web but I couldn't menage to find something. I can't get the phone recovery or downloading mode. is it still possible to delete the things in?
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The only way to wipe it is to flash new software to it. Think of it like a PC hard drive. As long as it has not been over written then the info can be recovered but if it get over written then it is gone. To be honest you have little to no worry as to do what you are afraid of would take way too much time for a repair shop to even deal with.
zelendel said:
The only way to wipe it is to flash new software to it. Think of it like a PC hard drive. As long as it has not been over written then the info can be recovered but if it get over written then it is gone. To be honest you have little to no worry as to do what you are afraid of would take way too much time for a repair shop to even deal with.
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My gf's father said that he'll repair, and is coming here to take the phone tomorrow. I don't know if he'll try but I'm still worried
anaczugo said:
My gf's father said that he'll repair, and is coming here to take the phone tomorrow. I don't know if he'll try but I'm still worried
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Unless he is an Android/Linux hardcore developer you have nothing to worry about. Even Then it would take him a week or more to do it.
No, it won't be possible. The only way to fix it would be to get a stock image on the device through either Jtag or odin. Once that is done, it will be clean slate and without you signing into your Google account, their will be no indication that the phone was ever yours...
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Unless he is an Android/Linux hardcore developer you have nothing to worry about. Even Then it would take him a week or more to do it.
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Oh, okay. Thanks again for your answer.
anaczugo said:
Oh, okay. Thanks again for your answer.
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No problem. Only know as I had to do it for one of my devices and it took me a month to get it to where I could mount it on a linux box and then pull what I needed from the system partition.
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SERIOUS WARNING! Multiuser mode can cost all your data!

I don't even know who to blame...
I setup another user so my girlfriend could use my tablet too.
Today when I came home she tells me the tablet went off, she claims she plugged in the power and it came back.
Then she click "yes or something" and...
Yep now all my data is gone. It seems she completely reset the tablet. I don't even know how she got there...
How could that even happen? It crashes a lot when switching between users but it never got into some mode where you can select to erase all ****.
I'm seriously mad at the moment.
I can only warn everyone to use this feature. I lost some data (photos and such) which I unfortunately did not backup yet. (my fault -.-)
DarsVaeda said:
I don't even know who to blame...
I setup another user so my girlfriend could use my tablet too.
Today when I came home she tells me the tablet went off, she claims she plugged in the power and it came back.
Then she click "yes or something" and...
Yep now all my data is gone. It seems she completely reset the tablet. I don't even know how she got there...
How could that even happen? It crashes a lot when switching between users but it never got into some mode where you can select to erase all ****.
I'm seriously mad at the moment.
I can only warn everyone to use this feature. I lost some data (photos and such) which I unfortunately did not backup yet. (my fault -.-)
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Well it doesn't sound like a feature to me. It sounds like she wiped your data (either in the bootloader or recovery or something else) and when it gave her a warning she clicked yes.
Who knows?
I say dump her
I can only blame her for clicking "yes" when she had no idea what it meant.
But seriously how can the tablet get in such a security critical state without any further action?
She definitely does not know how to get into bootloader or recovery.
That damn multi user **** ... I should have just left that stuff alone. It crashes every time I switched the users.
GNAAAAAAA
And I can't even recover the data cause of this damn stupid connection mode of ASUS.
GNAAA GNAAA GNAAA -.-
DarsVaeda said:
I can only blame her for clicking "yes" when she had no idea what it meant.
But seriously how can the tablet get in such a security critical state without any further action?
She definitely does not know how to get into bootloader or recovery.
That damn multi user **** ... I should have just left that stuff alone. It crashes every time I switched the users.
GNAAAAAAA
And I can't even recover the data cause of this damn stupid connection mode of ASUS.
GNAAA GNAAA GNAAA -.-
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I'm guessing by recover you mean using a program like recuva or something?
Sent from the Professional Optimus..
jesi.james said:
I'm guessing by recover you mean using a program like recuva or something?
Sent from the Professional Optimus..
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Yep, I know that tutorial you can find here to recover files. But you have to root and everything. And as I'm still in my warranty I'd like to prevent that -.-
DarsVaeda said:
Yep, I know that tutorial you can find here to recover files. But you have to root and everything. And as I'm still in my warranty I'd like to prevent that -.-
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Hmm. I had no idea asus had a different ftp. Recuva works for my other android phones.
Sent from the Professional Optimus..
I have a profile for my wife and have never had any problems but it's true that I've always told not to answer if you do not know what you're talking about the tablet and never has.
But it is difficult to come by chance in recovery....... and I think the developers of TWRP and CWM could perhaps enable password for wipe, it might be interesting to avoid situations like this.
DarsVaeda said:
Yep, I know that tutorial you can find here to recover files. But you have to root and everything. And as I'm still in my warranty I'd like to prevent that -.-
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If it is only root you need to use that app (of which I know nothing), rooting will not affect your warranty at all. As long a you don't unlock the tablet, your warranty is a-ok.
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sbdags said:
Well it doesn't sound like a feature to me. It sounds like she wiped your data (either in the bootloader or recovery or something else) and when it gave her a warning she clicked yes.
Who knows?
I say dump her
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DarsVaeda, I second that, but you should post a picture of her here and we will help you to decide whether to dump her or dump the stupid Transformer... :laugh:
I decided not to do any fancy stuff and just wipe everything and start over. And I'll stay away from setting up another user.
I still have no idea how she could reset the whole tablet...
I don't even have an idea how to get into recovery or the bootloader. Is it even possible without unlocking?
My best bet is still it is a very serious bug, even if only occuring in very strange situations.
myeepad said:
DarsVaeda, I second that, but you should post a picture of her here and we will help you to decide whether to dump her or dump the stupid Transformer... :laugh:
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I won't but if the desicion would be clear

Locked out of my phone - PLEASE HELP

Hey all,
My battery died, after recharge i couldn't access my phone... It says my screen lock pin is wrong! - I NEVER CHANGED IT
And there is no way to reset it without erasing all my data... i had no backups and my engagements photos were there...
'Find my phone' stopped working after the restart (whats the point of it? why does 'find my phone' isn't auto-running and connecting to google? it means that anybody can steal the phone and just restart, wipe it, and use it? this is crazy)
Is there anything that can be done to get my data back?
Thanks
CJ
cmplejack said:
Hey all,
My battery died, after recharge i couldn't access my phone... It says my screen lock pin is wrong! - I NEVER CHANGED IT
And there is no way to reset it without erasing all my data... i had no backups and my engagements photos were there...
'Find my phone' stopped working after the restart (whats the point of it? why does 'find my phone' isn't auto-running and connecting to google? it means that anybody can steal the phone and just restart, wipe it, and use it? this is crazy)
Is there anything that can be done to get my data back?
Thanks
CJ
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There is nothing you can do except wiping the storage
matze19999 said:
There is nothing you can do except wiping the storage
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Should i wait half a year / year till some bypass technique will be found?
cmplejack said:
And there is no way to reset it without erasing all my data... i had no backups and my engagements photos were there...
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Not backing up your data, then panicking when things go wrong. Unfortunately, an all too common story I've seen on these forums. If the data is important to you, back it up. Don't want to sound overly harsh, but expecting these devices to be foolproof, it not a reasonable expectation. Maybe you just had this engagement event quite recently, and haven't had a chance to backup. But otherwise (as is the story for most folks) no backup plans or habits exist, which you now see is not a good idea.
It doesn't look good. They intentionally prevent data from being retrieved without the password, by design. I know that part is not your fault, it seems some error or corruption has resulted in your password being changed unintentionally.
If you previously modded/rooted the phone, and have TWRP installed there is a small chance (at least worth trying) that you can boot into TWRP and mount storage. But that will likely also prompt you for the passcode and give you the same error/problem. On a stock device (never modified), you have little or no means of retrieving the data.
Your best hope is probably to consider whether you had some cloud backup apps setup, that you might not be thinking about regularly (and may have forgotten about). Example, if you ever used the Google Photos app (not a default app on this phone from what I recall, but maybe you installed it at some point?), it will backup your photos to the cloud, with very little action on your part. You can then still access those photos from a computer or other device, once logged onto your Google account. Maybe only a slim chance of something like that having happened, but you don't have many options at this point.
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cmplejack said:
Should i wait half a year / year till some bypass technique will be found?
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Really isn't going to happen ever. I've seen folks complain about type of thing happening on various devices for years. Never seen any type of "bypass" technique.
redpoint73 said:
Not backing up your data, then panicking when things go wrong. Unfortunately, an all too common story I've seen on these forums. If the data is important to you, back it up. Don't want to sound overly harsh, but expecting these devices to be foolproof, it not a reasonable expectation. Maybe you just had this engagement event quite recently, and haven't had a chance to backup. But otherwise (as is the story for most folks) no backup plans or habits exist, which you now see is not a good idea.
It doesn't look good. They intentionally prevent data from being retrieved without the password, by design. I know that part is not your fault, it seems some error or corruption has resulted in your password being changed unintentionally.
If you previously modded/rooted the phone, and have TWRP installed there is a small chance (at least worth trying) that you can boot into TWRP and mount storage. But that will likely also prompt you for the passcode and give you the same error/problem. On a stock device (never modified), you have little or no means of retrieving the data.
Your best hope is probably to consider whether you had some cloud backup apps setup, that you might not be thinking about regularly (and may have forgotten about). Example, if you ever used the Google Photos app (not a default app on this phone from what I recall, but maybe you installed it at some point?), it will backup your photos to the cloud, with very little action on your part. You can then still access those photos from a computer or other device, once logged onto your Google account. Maybe only a slim chance of something like that having happened, but you don't have many options at this point.
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Really isn't going to happen ever. I've seen folks complain about type of thing happening on various devices for years. Never seen any type of "bypass" technique.
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These unlocking softwares? Such as dr.fone can unlock Samsung phones... with enough time they will be able to do that to oneplus maybe?
Is there anything special in Oneplus design that will prevent future unlocking?
cmplejack said:
These unlocking softwares? Such as dr.fone can unlock Samsung phones... with enough time they will be able to do that to oneplus maybe?
Is there anything special in Oneplus design that will prevent future unlocking?
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such things won't happen.. You just cant access the data when the BL it locked, sorry for that. Just make some backups the next time
cmplejack said:
These unlocking softwares? Such as dr.fone can unlock Samsung phones... with enough time they will be able to do that to oneplus maybe?
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From what I can tell, that app requires root, and the reviews are pretty negative.
Can you try enter many time wrong pin and then go to forget password/pin? If you make this you can log with your Google accaunt
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I'm not believing it.
Google Photos will back up and I use it all the time.
My phone has died and never seen that issues.
Trying to unlock a phone that doesn't belong to him. Comes here with 3 posts asking to unlock a phone. RIGHT.....
tech_head said:
I'm not believing it.
Google Photos will back up and I use it all the time.
My phone has died and never seen that issues.
Trying to unlock a phone that doesn't belong to him. Comes here with 3 posts asking to unlock a phone. RIGHT.....
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Sounds a bit fishy to me too.
tech_head said:
I'm not believing it.
Google Photos will back up and I use it all the time.
My phone has died and never seen that issues.
Trying to unlock a phone that doesn't belong to him. Comes here with 3 posts asking to unlock a phone. RIGHT.....
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It wasn’t enabled, but thanks.
You know i can just wipe the phone and use it right? I care about the photos more than anything else..
tropical cactus said:
Sounds a bit fishy to me too.
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Fishy?! You know i can just wipe the phone and use it right? If it wasn't mine i don't think i would care much about the data. Sherlock
Geto-Fraer said:
Can you try enter many time wrong pin and then go to forget password/pin? If you make this you can log with your Google accaunt
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I wish... There is no forgot/password option.. :/
Defo use my gmail to unlock if there was an option...
cmplejack said:
Fishy?! You know i can just wipe the phone and use it right? If it wasn't mine i don't think i would care much about the data. Sherlock
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Lots of personal and financial info on these devices, that thieves will try to steal. That is why the data is inaccessible if you don't have the password. That may not apply to you, but it definitely happens.

September update broke my camera, N986BXXU1ATI2

My phone is the Exynnos Note 20 Ultra 5G SM-N986B/DS and it was working fine so far, but 2 days ago I received the software update for September N986BXXU1ATI2 and the camera has some purple/green colors but after a while inside the camera app fixes itself, but if I switch camera modes it goes back to that.
Things that I tried so far:
1. Wipe cache partition
2. Test other camera apps (same outcome), so I guess is more of a camera firmware.
The update does mention camera improvements so that is why I think is not hardware related. What do you guys think?
Is there a way to make a full phone backup?, wanna try flashing a complete room.
I have attached a YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pvCTjwa0A
Go to galaxy apps, update your camera. Problem solved
Sent from my BlackBerry Bold 9900
thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?
juanyunis said:
thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?
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Try clearing the cam app data?
Clear system cache again afterwards.
Hard reboot (not reset!) might get it.
blackhawk said:
Try clearing the cam app data?
Clear system cache again afterwards.
Hard reboot (not reset!) might get it.
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No luck, I think I might have to go wipe/flash route. Quick question I have a long time without rooting or modding phones, does samsung still uses ODIN? or is there another software? Is there a way to make a full backup of the user data without losing it?
juanyunis said:
thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?
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juanyunis said:
No luck, I think I might have to go wipe/flash route. Quick question I have a long time without rooting or modding phones, does samsung still uses ODIN? or is there another software? Is there a way to make a full backup of the user data without losing it?
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I'm not the one to ask about flashing. Probably be on a stock 10+ until it dies.
If it's not already rooted there's no way to save most of your app settings.
Poweramp and PD MDM are two of the few apps that provide exportable backup copies for settings/db.
Data can be transferred to the SD card but I would also back that up on the computer. Make sure your contacts, texts, pics, movies, music and documents etc are backed up.
I use ApkExport to save copies of all my apps and updates for faster reloading
I use my SD card like a data drive.
If you're going to go all nuke about it might as well try a hard reset and see if a clean load solves the issue
@blackhawk thanks man. I guess i will have to go hard nuke, I wish that there was a way to copy stuff smart switch way. I transferred everything from my old Note 10+ to this one using smart switch. It sucks that i sold it 1 week ago.
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@blackhawk thanks man. I guess i will have to go hard nuke, I wish that there was a way to copy stuff smart switch way. I transferred everything from my old Note 10+ to this one using smart switch. It sucks that i sold it 1 week ago.
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Smart switch didn't work very well for me... it was a time consuming mess.
After a couple reloads if you streamline your data storage it's pretty easy. About a day to get it 90% back plus you learn a lot by playing with it.
I generally wait a while before during firmware updates... especially if it's running well.
If the phone is under warranty and a hard reset doesn't fix it I would sent it in to cover your ass...ets.
Let Samsung sort their own mess out.
@blackhawk thank god i didn't import it myself, i bought it from a store, but they imported it from Singapore. I already validated with them that if i can't fix it by doing a hard reset, then i would request a replacement and they agreed.
Hopefully the reset will get it done
Resets are over used as many times it's a settings issue... lazy techs.
A fresh clean load is nice though.

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