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Here's the deal, kept short:
Wife's Nexus S just updated to Android 4.1.2
Wife disabled the stock keyboard, because SwiftKey was disabled whenever she restarted her phone
Password on lockscreen
No keyboard for entering the password, only voice input (wtf)
Phone is not developer, so I cannot use ADB; [adb shell input text <password>] followed by [adb shell input keypress 66] is not an option
Phone is not rooted, running stock Android 4.1.2 from Google
and, yes, my mom agreed: I'm special
What can I do? Resetting/wiping the phone to factory defaults is just as much an option as entering the password.
Update:
Tried speaking the password, did not work
Tried following a hard factory reset-guide, did not work
PM me if you have the same problem.
Alrekr said:
Here's the deal, kept short:
Wife's Nexus S just updated to Android 4.1.2
Wife disabled the stock keyboard, because SwiftKey was disabled whenever she restarted her phone
Password on lockscreen
No keyboard for entering the password, only voice input (wtf)
Phone is not developer, so I cannot use ADB; [adb shell input text <password>] followed by [adb shell input keypress 66] is not an option
Phone is not rooted, running stock Android 4.1.2 from Google
and, yes, my mom agreed: I'm special
What can I do? Resetting/wiping the phone to factory defaults is just as much an option as entering the password.
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How could she disable the stock keyboard? You cannot disable it unless you're rooted.
polobunny said:
How could she disable the stock keyboard? You cannot disable it unless you're rooted.
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It is entirely possible with Android 4.1.1, apparently. See attached image. My phone is in Danish, but the marked button is the Disable-button. Also, 'Android-tastatur' means 'Android Keyboard'.
Alrekr said:
It is entirely possible with Android 4.1.1, apparently. See attached image. My phone is in Danish, but the marked button is the Disable-button. Also, 'Android-tastatur' means 'Android Keyboard'.
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Oh boy she really went out of way to disable it haha! You're not supposed to disable a keyboard like that, rather uncheck it from the input section in the settings. I have no idea myself, I was just curious. :/
Unless you're going to factory reset, which should leave data in the storage alone, then I guess you'll have to speak the password.
eksasol said:
Unless you're going to factory reset, which will leave data in the storage alone, then I guess you'll have to speak the password.
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Yeah, but it is a random collection of letters and numbers, similar to xxxXxXX##X; x'es are letters, #'es are numbers. Also, it doesn't work. We've tried. As soon as I've waited 5 minutes, I will update the description.
I may be wrong, but maybe someone else can help me out.
Try going into download mode and downloading a keyboard from you computer?
Just a thought. Not sure if it would even work.
But then again you said you don't have ADB or whatever. :/
EDIT: Try going to your carrier. :f
He is running stock with no Debugging enabled it won't work. Also download mode is for Odin, not recommended with Nexus devices.
If the device has data and logged into a Google account, then apps can be installed remotely from accessing PlayStore from a webbrowser, though I do not know if it install while in lockscreen mode. Unfortunately, when a keyboard is installed it is not enabled by default until the user select it.
I don't have a Nexus right now but I wonder if one can fastboot boot cwm.img without flashing it thus not requiring a complete wipe via fastnoot oem umlock, I think I'm wrong though. Then you can either clear data, then the keyboard would be reenabled. But since it looks like you do not want to clear the data, I don't know. Probably find a signed update.zip that work with regular recovery, if there is one.
I don't have a solution beside a factory reset.
I wonder if phones thieves find all this useful.
Sent from my SGH-T959
eksasol said:
He is running stock with no Debugging enabled it won't work. Also download mode is for Odin, not recommended with Nexus devices.
If the device has data and logged into a Google account, then apps can be installed remotely from accessing PlayStore from a webbrowser, though I do not know if it install while in lockscreen mode. Unfortunately, when a keyboard is installed it is not enabled by default until the user select it.
I don't have a Nexus right now but I wonder if one can fastboot boot cwm.img without flashing it thus not requiring a complete wipe via fastnoot oem umlock, I think I'm wrong though. Then you can either clear data, then the keyboard would be reenabled. But since it looks like you do not want to clear the data, I don't know. Probably find a signed update.zip that work with regular recovery, if there is one.
I don't have a solution beside a factory reset.
I wonder if phones thieves find all this useful.
Sent from my SGH-T959
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Wiping the data was an option, and that was what we did. I didn't think of the thief-dilemma. Will edit the original post in a few minutes.
Alrekr said:
Wiping the data was an option, and that was what we did. I didn't think of the thief-dilemma. Will edit the original post in a few minutes.
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From your post we assumed you didn't want to wipe your data, not that you couldn't figure out how to do it. Misunderstanding I believe.
polobunny said:
From your post we assumed you didn't want to wipe your data, not that you couldn't figure out how to do it. Misunderstanding I believe.
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My English sucks sometimes, sorry. I see where the confusion came from. Allow me to be clear (pun intended): Wiping the phone was an option; entering the password somehow was also an option; as long as I could do it myself, without bricking the phone, and as long as I didn't have to buy a new phone it was an option.
Alrekr said:
My English sucks sometimes, sorry. I see where the confusion came from. Allow me to be clear (pun intended): Wiping the phone was an option; entering the password somehow was also an option; as long as I could do it myself, without bricking the phone, and as long as I didn't have to buy a new phone it was an option.
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No problem, these things happen. At least you fixed your problem.
You may want to start the device in safe mode, I did it that way and was able to change the keyboard to the android stock keyboard. Google your device to find out how to start the device in safe mode.
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Related
Carrier: Verizon
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 4gLTE 32gb
Model Number: SCH-I535
OS: stock
My friend entered the pattern-swipe password too many times, which made my GS3 lock up and force me "To unlock, sign in with [my] Google account". So, I did that many times to no avail. I tried all 3 of my gmail accounts even though I know which one specifically that associated with the google play account as I had bought an application a few weeks back and found the receipt of that app in my main email. Next, I changed the passwords to all the accounts and tried them again. Then after that I changed all my passwords to strictly numerical passwords so my passwords had no letters in them as I thought perhaps my phone was auto-capitalizing the first letter of my password -- didn't work. I've turned my phone on and off multiple times, taken out the batter and sim card multiple times as well. Also, it's important to note that I attempted to log in with and without the domain name: "emailaddress" and "[email protected]" and that I assume the Wi-Fi is turned off due to the fact that manually turned it off since I was on a cruise at the time that was charging $23 per every half hour of internet... I also turned off the data inside the scroll down menu and then turned on airplane mode; however, I was able to turn off airplane mode via holding down my power button and clicking on the airplane mode button. I'm pretty sure that the data is on now, at least when I try to type in my password.
I called google: the woman told me to turn my phone on and off and to make sure I had the right password -- she was clueless
I talked to Samsung online: they told me that Verizon had unlock codes...
William: As you are unable to unlock the device with the Google account details , please contact the carrier for assistance
William: As the unlock codes are provided by the carrier
William: You can contact Verizon support at 1-888-466-4646.
I called Verizon and they said they can do a factory reset and don't have any such "unlock codes"
I've tried to access the phone with Samsung Kies, but it says that I need to unlock the phone first.
I tried accessing the phone through the my computer folder, but there's nothing inside the SCH-I535 folder.
I right clicked and looked at the properties of the SCH-I535 folder and there was no information provided (not even the file size of the harddrive).
I right clicked and tried to import movies and photos and I couldn't do that.
I tried having someone call me (I can receive calls) and quickly pressing the menu button to try to get into the phone -- that didn't work.
So yeah, I can't get into my phone.
I want to at least be able to retrieve my photos/videos from the family vacation I just went on. Is there a way to salvage them? (I didn't set up dropbox or any backup service for that matter) Does verizon backup assistant plus backup information on your phone without you having to set it up? Is the password that I need to supply the same one as my gmail password?
How can I fix this?
Someone save me.
not sure if doable, but I'd try booting into the recovery menu. It usually is done by holding a combination "volume-down + home +power" or "v-up+-home+_power". Once you get there, one of the options should be factory reset.
ricecracker96 said:
Carrier: Verizon
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3
Model Number: SCH-I535
My friend entered the pattern-swipe password too many times, which made my GS3 lock up and force me "To unlock, sign in with [my] Google account". So, I did that many times to no avail. I tried all 3 of my gmail accounts even though I know which one specifically that associated with the google play account as I had bought an application a few weeks back and found the receipt of that app in my main email. Next, I changed the passwords to all the accounts and tried them again. Then after that I changed all my passwords to strictly numerical passwords so my passwords had no letters in them as I thought perhaps my phone was auto-capitalizing the first letter of my password -- didn't work. I've turned my phone on and off multiple times, taken out the batter and sim card multiple times as well. Also, it's important to note that I attempted to log in with and without the domain name: "emailaddress" and "[email protected]" and that I assume the Wi-Fi is turned off due to the fact that manually turned it off since I was on a cruise at the time that was charging $23 per every half hour of internet... I also turned off the data inside the scroll down menu and then turned on airplane mode; however, I was able to turn off airplane mode via holding down my power button and clicking on the airplane mode button. I'm pretty sure that the data is on now, at least when I try to type in my password.
I called google: the woman told me to turn my phone on and off and to make sure I had the right password -- she was clueless
I talked to Samsung online: they told me that Verizon had unlock codes...
William: As you are unable to unlock the device with the Google account details , please contact the carrier for assistance
William: As the unlock codes are provided by the carrier
William: You can contact Verizon support at 1-888-466-4646.
I called Verizon and they said they can do a factory reset and don't have any such "unlock codes"
I've tried to access the phone with Samsung Kies, but it says that I need to unlock the phone first.
I tried accessing the phone through the my computer folder, but there's nothing inside the SCH-I535 folder.
I right clicked and looked at the properties of the SCH-I535 folder and there was no information provided (not even the file size of the harddrive).
I right clicked and tried to import movies and photos and I couldn't do that.
I tried having someone call me (I can receive calls) and quickly pressing the menu button to try to get into the phone -- that didn't work.
So yeah, I can't get into my phone.
I want to at least be able to retrieve my photos/videos from the family vacation I just went on. Is there a way to salvage them? (I didn't set up dropbox or any backup service for that matter) Does verizon backup assistant plus backup information on your phone without you having to set it up? Is the password that I need to supply the same one as my gmail password?
How can I fix this?
Someone save me.
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Wow! You've done everything. Possibly changing the password made the situation worse? It wasn't letting you in regardless. Wow... sucks about your pictures and videos... god damn thing. God damn friend.
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If you're completely stock, factory reset from settings, privacy should get you back to the set up wizard or whatever its called. If rooted and custom recovery is installed, boot in to recovery and do a restore or data factory reset. Anything on your SD card should be safe.
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Also, I should note that my goal here is to recover my pictures/videos. I do know that the factory reset is an option; however, that wouldn't allow me to retrieve my photos/videos as my 32g stock verizon galaxy s3 didn't come with an sd card, nor did I insert one, so all the pictures and videos are saved onto the harddrive.
Do you guys know if the harddrive is partitioned so that photos/videos are saved in the event of a factory reset?
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Also, I should note that my goal here is to recover my pictures/videos. I do know that the factory reset is an option; however, that wouldn't allow me to retrieve my photos/videos as my 32g stock verizon galaxy s3 didn't come with an sd card, nor did I insert one, so all the pictures and videos are saved onto the harddrive.
Do you guys know if the harddrive is partitioned so that photos/videos are saved in the event of a factory reset?
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When you connect it to your computer it should bring up a "Phone" drive, Inside that there should be a folder with all of your pictures and videos. Are you not seeing that at all?
And no, if you factory reset you will lose everything on the internal sdcard
Check your Google accounts. Every now and then, they get hacked or spammed and Google will lock them. Check the account online and perhaps re-set your password. If that doesn't work... you may be hosed.
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When you connect it to your computer it should bring up a "Phone" drive, Inside that there should be a folder with all of your pictures and videos. Are you not seeing that at all?
And no, if you factory reset you will lose everything on the internal sdcard
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There is a "phone" drive that pops up as "SCH-I535", and inside of this drive there are 0 items. When I look at the properties the only info it gives me are:
model name
manufacturer
firmware version
serious number
battery life percentage
Yeah, nothing really useful in there.
Thanks for the clarification on the factory reset; I have a feeling that's what I'll have to end up doing :[
can you odin CWM in then backup stuff through there?
xrock80 said:
Check your Google accounts. Every now and then, they get hacked or spammed and Google will lock them. Check the account online and perhaps re-set your password. If that doesn't work... you may be hosed.
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I already changed the passwords multiple times to test that out :[
Did you happen start start Google + ? If so, then it should have stored your photos/videos in your Google + account.
Otherwise; I think you have to reset...
con247 said:
can you odin CWM in then backup stuff through there?
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Looking into it right now. If you have any threads you know about for my phone please let me know. Thanks ^^
con247 said:
can you odin CWM in then backup stuff through there?
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I can't. For some reason I cannot find 2 files I need:
Blank System.img.tar
or
Rooted System.img.tar
Does anyone know where I can find these files?
ricecracker96 said:
I can't. For some reason I cannot find 2 files I need:
Blank System.img.tar
or
Rooted System.img.tar
Does anyone know where I can find these files?
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When I originally did my phone I used the rooted stock image image (root66) found here. The original non-rooted images are available in a different thread in the same forum.
Ok just to clarify a few things that have been mentioned in the thread:
If you don't have usb debugging enabled then your phone cannot communicate with your pc so ALWAYS enable that as soon as you get your phone even if you never plan on using it (just in case). Without usb debugging enabled you cannot use any of the backup functions in the S3 ToolKit.
You cannot access internal storage if you are locked out and cannot get past the lock screen for security reasons. If you do not have any security set then you can access internal storage by turning the phone on.
Performing a NAND backup in cwm will not back your data/media folder as it could potentially require a 16/32/64GB backup file if your whole internal storage was used up. For this reason you could not recover any data from internal storage using this method.
Performing a wipe in recovery will NOT format the data/media partition so you will not lose any data on there. I just tried it to make sure and the system is reset but everything on internal storage is still there. This was tested on a custom rom and using cwm recovery 6.0.1.0.
As you dont have usb debugging enabled then your only option to get the phone working again is to wipe from recovery. If it wipes your internal storage then I apologise but there is really nothing else you can do.
Mark.
Just in time, I think this may solve your problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800799
caslca said:
Just in time, I think this may solve your problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800799
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He has stated that his phone doesn't have usb debugging enabled so adb commands will not work.
Mark.
mskip said:
Ok just to clarify a few things that have been mentioned in the thread:
If you don't have usb debugging enabled then your phone cannot communicate with your pc so ALWAYS enable that as soon as you get your phone even if you never plan on using it (just in case). Without usb debugging enabled you cannot use any of the backup functions in the S3 ToolKit.
You cannot access internal storage if you are locked out and cannot get past the lock screen for security reasons. If you do not have any security set then you can access internal storage by turning the phone on.
Performing a NAND backup in cwm will not back your data/media folder as it could potentially require a 16/32/64GB backup file if your whole internal storage was used up. For this reason you could not recover any data from internal storage using this method.
Performing a wipe in recovery will NOT format the data/media partition so you will not lose any data on there. I just tried it to make sure and the system is reset but everything on internal storage is still there. This was tested on a custom rom and using cwm recovery 6.0.1.0.
As you dont have usb debugging enabled then your only option to get the phone working again is to wipe from recovery. If it wipes your internal storage then I apologise but there is really nothing else you can do.
Mark.
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Thank you so much for the help, good sir. Yeah, I made a big mistake not turning on usb debugging or setting up dropbox/google+/something of the sort. Though, I guess it's somewhat of a good thing that this happened since I was never interested in understanding how android works before. Now, I'm planning on playing around with it once I wipe it. Hopefully, it'll work. Anyway, thanks again
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Thank you so much for the help, good sir. Yeah, I made a big mistake not turning on usb debugging or setting up dropbox/google+/something of the sort. Though, I guess it's somewhat of a good thing that this happened since I was never interested in understanding how android works before. Now, I'm planning on playing around with it once I wipe it. Hopefully, it'll work. Anyway, thanks again
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Yeah it always takes a disaster to bring you closer to your phone lol.
Let us know how it goes
Mark.
Won't a stock Odin flash fix this?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
I am in a weird situation. Few days back I disabled samsung keyboard using nobloat app as i use adaptxt all time. But i have an encryption password and as samsung keyboard is disabled, i cant turn my phone on. I click on the text box for entering the device storage password when it boots, nothing happens (obviously)
I will appreciate any ideas or hacks to work around this issue, so that i will be able to use my phone.
Is there a way using command line to restore my keyboard app? I would ideally not want to restore/format my phone, but I am open to that.
Thanks!
cheekoo said:
I am in a weird situation. Few days back I disabled samsung keyboard using nobloat app as i use adaptxt all time. But i have an encryption password and as samsung keyboard is disabled, i cant turn my phone on. I click on the text box for entering the device storage password when it boots, nothing happens (obviously)
I will appreciate any ideas or hacks to work around this issue, so that i will be able to use my phone.
Is there a way using command line to restore my keyboard app? I would ideally not want to restore/format my phone, but I am open to that.
Thanks!
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An update on this.
I am able to open ClockworkMod Recovery mode. The option of 'wipe data/factory reset' does not work .. says - error mounting data. and error mounting '/sdcard/.android_secure'. any ideas?
I returned my phone to stock UE40. So it's in something like a factory state. I booted up and, as expected, got the language selection screen. After that, I logged into my WiFi network. But I don't want to enter my account info. I just want to get to the home screen. Seems to me I did this very recently, but that may have been on a Nexus device, maybe one with a custom ROM. I don't recall for sure. Anyway, I can't get past that system request for my Google email address. Is there a way to do this where I can just get to the home screen without entering credentials?
maigre said:
I returned my phone to stock UE40. So it's in something like a factory state. I booted up and, as expected, got the language selection screen. After that, I logged into my WiFi network. But I don't want to enter my account info. I just want to get to the home screen. Seems to me I did this very recently, but that may have been on a Nexus device, maybe one with a custom ROM. I don't recall for sure. Anyway, I can't get past that system request for my Google email address. Is there a way to do this where I can just get to the home screen without entering credentials?
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One method is to NOT enter your wifi...or to tell it to forget it...maybe pull the sim to so no data connection...then it has no option to setup a gmail account and should let you skip it.
Once at home screen you can go into settings,wifi and re-enable your wifi.
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One method is to NOT enter your wifi...or to tell it to forget it...maybe pull the sim to so no data connection...then it has no option to setup a gmail account and should let you skip it.
Once at home screen you can go into settings,wifi and re-enable your wifi.
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I don't think I was able to get past the wifi request. That's what I tried the first time around. I could reset and try it again. The SIM card is already out.
I reset and tried to bypass the wifi selection. No go. Even if I turned wifi off, the system would just turn it back on and cycle me through language selection and wifi network. Strange. I KNOW I did this recently, but that may have been on a Nexus 6. Probably was.
FWIW, every time I reset the device, it bootloops when I try to boot into the system. Tonight, this happened a few times. First, when I wiped the device, flashed a system image, and tried to boot into it. Then, a few more times when I reset from stock recovery. Each time, I'd power the phone off during the bootloop and then restart. And it would be OK.
No matter. I'm where I need to be. Just wondered if there was a way around wifi selection and and entering an email address.
Sorry to bump this thread,
But I'm having a similar issue. I restored the phone and booted fine. Until I got to the setup page, I couldn't skip it so I login in my credentials and the "protect your phone" prompt appeared and sent me back to the language screen.
I’m restoring it again using the restore software 4.9.2 tool, since I had the 5 percent issue earlier and I’m going to try again and see if I can skip it.
Of course I’m unable to set up usb debugging as I can’t at least accessing the main home screen.
Any advice suggestions are much appreciated.
Thanks.
Never mind got it working and back on Twrp and flashing. Used an old samsung trick and accessed the developer settings that way.
How you did it?
I can tell you what I did to bypass it.
I first got a USB OTG flash drive from the local computer store. I then downloaded an unsigned apk file from any site that has them. Personally I stumbled upon this solution so I had some random "Unlock your phone" APK on the drive. Anyhow, when the phone was on I plugged the flash drive into the phone and tried to open the APK file, it gave me an error message stating that the app was unsigned but then it allowed me to go into security settings, from there I could turn off all of the google verification crap. After I turned off all of the settings, I wiped the cache on the phone, restored it, and it was fixed. No more verification screen.
i HAVE NO ISSUE ON 6045y WITH STOCK FIRMWARE OR WITH DCZ FIRMWARE. I can bypass the setup screen normally.
So I upgraded my Honor 6 according to this hihonor.in/community/blog/upgrade-your-honor-6-to-android-l
Everything seems ok really, except for one critical little detail: I have no keyboard. When I click on a text field to type, I only get that google voice thingy, and in input settings I get no choice to add new keyboards, nor can I modify the current one. And my spoken English just isn't good enough for this, I need my keyboard. :crying:
Help please?
I have of course tried every reasonable variation of a reset and so on, they all fail. Currently looking into downgrading it, and then re-upgrading it or something along those lines..
PS: This has to be the most annoying website I've ever been to when it comes to new users. After spending 10+ minutes trying to register, I give up and log in with my google account, which works on the third attempt. And then I try posting this, but noo, can't post links... Not to mention that there's a captcha around every corner.
stupidregistrationsystem said:
So I upgraded my Honor 6 according to this hihonor.in/community/blog/upgrade-your-honor-6-to-android-l
Everything seems ok really, except for one critical little detail: I have no keyboard. When I click on a text field to type, I only get that google voice thingy, and in input settings I get no choice to add new keyboards, nor can I modify the current one. And my spoken English just isn't good enough for this, I need my keyboard. :crying:
Help please?
I have of course tried every reasonable variation of a reset and so on, they all fail. Currently looking into downgrading it, and then re-upgrading it or something along those lines..
PS: This has to be the most annoying website I've ever been to when it comes to new users. After spending 10+ minutes trying to register, I give up and log in with my google account, which works on the third attempt. And then I try posting this, but noo, can't post links... Not to mention that there's a captcha around every corner.
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connect to a Wifi (if yours have a password just disable it) then go to google and Say ' Google Keyboard APK' using the google voice thingy , then install it
cheptii said:
connect to a Wifi (if yours have a password just disable it) then go to google and Say ' Google Keyboard APK' using the google voice thingy , then install it
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Yay, pushed it out via adb and it works like a charm. Thanks
Any clue WHY this wasn't installed in the first place though?
Nop , i had the same problem too and i solved it that way
Keyboard working for me fine after upgrading, but when I encrypt the phone and reboot it, I cannot get keyboard to show when I am supposed to unlock the encryption. I had swiftkey keyboard installed before, and it didn't work. I had to do factory reset, and then with the default (google keyboard) no luck either. I am using the international variant H60-L04 and I updated phone through the stock updater app with honorindia stock lollipop.
I can't even install the keyboard. It gives me the error -505. Please, tell me what's going on there
Muun_ said:
I can't even install the keyboard. It gives me the error -505. Please, tell me what's going on there
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Download the APK File with your Computer and put it in the SD Card
cheptii said:
Download the APK File with your Computer and put it in the SD Card
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It doesn't matter, it won't install.
Muun_ said:
It doesn't matter, it won't install.
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Enable Unknown Sources
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Enable Unknown Sources
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I did, still refused to install
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I did, still refused to install
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Try Swiftkey keyboard
"Type password to decrypt storage" and no keyboard
I am also having similar problems with no keyboard after upgrade to 5.1.1 and then encrypting the phone.
"Type password to decrypt storage" and no software keyboard when I click the textbox. The only other thing to press it the "emergency call".
I managed to hack together an USB OTG-cable and connect a hardware keyboard and use this to input the password, but its a bit annoying having to get a hardware keyboard everytime you need to restart the phone.
I have the google keyboard, skype swift and the 1pass keyboard and I have tried to disable other keyboards and set the Huwai as default, but that did not help.
My phone is a H60-L04 with android 5.1.1. Unrooted and very much vanilla.
Do anyone have any suggestions for what more to try?
Hi sgiratch, did you had any luck. I had the same problem today. I am not able to decrypt my phone. Please guide me how to get out of this problem. Not able to switch on my phone.
No luck. Im carrying an OTG-cable with me at all times and have a keyboard at hand. Thats the only temporary fix I've found. I try to avoid rebooting the phone
Hi sgiratch, Thanks for reply. Our charging cable will work as OTG cable i guess, but what keyboard you are using..I dont understand wht key board to use.
You can't use your charging cable. You need a micro-B to plug into your phone and the other end of the cable has to be a female type-A. And then you can connect any USBkeyboard into your phone and type away.
Like this paruu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/otg-cable.jpg
Thanks sgiratch. I will try this out.
honor 6 keyboard not show
So I upgraded my Honor 6 according to this hihonor.in/community/blog/upgrade-your-honor-6-to-android-l
Everything seems ok really, except for one critical little detail: I have no keyboard. When I click on a text field to type, I only get that google voice thingy, and in input settings I get no choice to add new keyboards, nor can I modify the current one. And my spoken English just isn't good enough for this, I need my keyboard.
Help please?
tahirkhan111213 said:
So I upgraded my Honor 6 according to this hihonor.in/community/blog/upgrade-your-honor-6-to-android-l
Everything seems ok really, except for one critical little detail: I have no keyboard. When I click on a text field to type, I only get that google voice thingy, and in input settings I get no choice to add new keyboards, nor can I modify the current one. And my spoken English just isn't good enough for this, I need my keyboard.
Help please?
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Install google keyboard from playstore.
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Just a quick one, does anyone know what app is meant to transfer data from a Samsung to a pixel? If I plug the phones into one another my Samsung says no compatible app and there's no option to transfer data. I'm wondering if its some bloatware I've uninstalled from the Samsung perhaps. There's no transfer dialogue that pops up on my old phone and I need to move all my pictures across. Thanks
If you plug both devices together you should be able to change USB mode of one of them to Data Transfer and then copy/paste between them.
SchmilK said:
If you plug both devices together you should be able to change USB mode of one of them to Data Transfer and then copy/paste between them.
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Thanks for the reply. The issue I'm having now is the setup dialogue is gone. Anyone have any tips on where to find it?
Edit. I don't want to copy paste and have all the dates and times on my images reset
Bxperiaz3 said:
Thanks for the reply. The issue I'm having now is the setup dialogue is gone. Anyone have any tips on where to find it?
Edit. I don't want to copy paste and have all the dates and times on my images reset
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Ooooooh, so you skipped the initial transfer during setup?
You'd have to figure out what the intent command is to relaunch initial setup and try that way, otherwise factory reset the pixel and say yes to transfer from other device.
SchmilK said:
Ooooooh, so you skipped the initial transfer during setup?
You'd have to figure out what the intent command is to relaunch initial setup and try that way, otherwise factory reset the pixel and say yes to transfer from other device.
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Yeah I must have an didn't realise. I'm rooted and mostly set up no so no going back easily..
Bxperiaz3 said:
Yeah I must have an didn't realise. I'm rooted and mostly set up no so no going back easily..
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Ah yeah, you'd have to do a reset and start over.
Personally, I've always had much better results telling the first setup screen that I don't have my old phone, and then proceeding to restore using Google's cloud backup. I've never had an issue doing that, but of course, that requires that you had Google cloud backup performed on the old phone. You can do so on the Samsung if you still have it, and you hadn't already done so previously.
I believe I've read about some way to manually activate the first setup without a factory reset - possible by using an app such as Activity Launcher, but I don't recall the details.
roirraW edor ehT said:
Personally, I've always had much better results telling the first setup screen that I don't have my old phone, and then proceeding to restore using Google's cloud backup. I've never had an issue doing that, but of course, that requires that you had Google cloud backup performed on the old phone. You can do so on the Samsung if you still have it, and you hadn't already done so previously.
I believe I've read about some way to manually activate the first setup without a factory reset - possible by using an app such as Activity Launcher, but I don't recall the details.
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That's a good suggestion thanks. I'm always afraid I'll lose things of I don't transfer phone to phone but I know it can lead to problems by inadvertently carrying over loads of old files that won't be used by the new phone. Still have my Sammy so I'll back that up. Thanks
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That's a good suggestion thanks. I'm always afraid I'll lose things of I don't transfer phone to phone but I know it can lead to problems by inadvertently carrying over loads of old files that won't be used by the new phone. Still have my Sammy so I'll back that up. Thanks
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You're welcome! I'm at the tail end of transferring my files from my 6 Pro to the 7 Pro. It's mostly just music (FLAC files) that's left, and I'm not moving all of them.