Hey,
I know this looks extremely dodgy, but I am doing this for a friend (not that that makes it sound any better either).
Basically, someone nicked my friends phone and placed a password on it, I have no idea how long it is since this person is a complete so and so. Is there anyway I can hack into it and unlock the phone. Say, like an ADB code i can run from my computer? Its an huawei (sp?) U8510 running Android 2.3.x Unrooted
BONUS QUESTION: Anyway i could go about rooting this model?
Thanks,
Vol down button and power button factory restore and just go to forum and look for aio.
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Thanks, but isnt there some kind of way i can do this without losing the data?
Is the phone rooted? Flashing a newer version of the ROM might help, but always back up data first.
No, its not rooted yet.
if its completely stock, only way to remove the password without going through settings is a hard reset by holding volume UP and power until you get into bootloader. This process will restore it to factory settings and everything on the phone will be lost.
The manufacturer or phone carrier may be able to unlock it if you provide acct info and proof of ownership. I'd try that before resetting it to stock.
Screen lock? If your has Google account on it, enter "wrong" password 5 times and you see forgot password button.
Edit: it works only with patterns.
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Nah its an actual password. He found out the password today. I'm extremely surprised there's no brute force hacker (software, not manually) you could apply to it
1°) setting
2°) location and securite
3°) define lock
4°) passeword
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Hi,
I went abroad on vacation and turned off the data connection on my Nexus S (GT-i9023). While on vacation a friend figured out my pattern to unlock my phone. Because of that I changed the pattern and of course couldn't remember the new pattern which led to my phone getting locked. To unlock it I have to sign in to my Google account but like I wrote I turned of data connection before I went abroad so I can't log in to my Google acoount. =(
Is there a way to force activate data connection or WiFi without USB debugging enabled? If not, is there a way to force activate USB debugging and then force activate data connection or WiFi? If I can get either one of them working I guess I would be able to unlock the phone by entering my Google account information.
Is there another way of recovering my pictures and videos from the phone maybe? I really really would like to be able to save all pictures and videos that I took on my vacation up until I looked it out.
Please please help and thank you very much in advance!!
Is your phone rooted?
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No it's not rooted.
Have you tried entering "null" without the quotes for your password?
Yes I have tried with null as password and with and without @gmail.com with my username.
I have tried to connect it with ADB but the device is not found. I don't think the USB-debugging is activated so I guess that's why I can't see it. Isn't there any tool to force activate USB-debugging or get around that somehow? Atleast then I would have a chance.
Please, any tips?
I also contacted Samsung support but the only answer i get from them is that i have to reset my phone or send it to them so they can reset it and I don't want to do that.
There must be a way? If I connect the usb-cable while in the boot menu I can see it in the device manager as "Android phone - Android ADB Interface". But if I type adb devices the "List of devices" ends up empty.
Is there really no way? I'm totally new to this but it doesn't make sense that there is no way what so ever to get a connection to the phone. Please help, I'll try anything.
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?
ricecracker96 said:
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.
Sccrluk9 said:
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
ricecracker96 said:
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?
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I used the Unlock with Wifi app happily with pattern login for months and while browsing through the settings one day successfully enabled the device admin mode login.
Maybe I'm a tinker, or just a masochist...
This meant I had to change my good ol' trusty pattern to a fancy (annoying-to-type) pin. After a few short uses and over a couple days, I disabled the app from within the app's home screen because I didn't notice any kind of difference from the non pin-typing days. Since I was forced to change to the typed pin to enable admin mode, I changed from typed pin back to my pattern pin and enjoyed life. It all went down hill when I re-enabled the app from its home page and turned on my Xoom to a screen asking for a typed pin. Either I don't remember it, or its not being accepted, but I can't unlock the device. I thought it would be like other Android OS' that ask you to login with your Google account to reset the login, but I''ve now done it 50 times and it just give me a message that's keeping count for me.
Is there a way to fix this without wiping? I've contacted the developer and am waiting for his advice...
integramodder said:
I used the Unlock with Wifi app happily with pattern login for months and while browsing through the settings one day successfully enabled the device admin mode login.
Maybe I'm a tinker, or just a masochist...
This meant I had to change my good ol' trusty pattern to a fancy (annoying-to-type) pin. After a few short uses and over a couple days, I disabled the app from within the app's home screen because I didn't notice any kind of difference from the non pin-typing days. Since I was forced to change to the typed pin to enable admin mode, I changed from typed pin back to my pattern pin and enjoyed life. It all went down hill when I re-enabled the app from its home page and turned on my Xoom to a screen asking for a typed pin. Either I don't remember it, or its not being accepted, but I can't unlock the device. I thought it would be like other Android OS' that ask you to login with your Google account to reset the login, but I''ve now done it 50 times and it just give me a message that's keeping count for me.
Is there a way to fix this without wiping? I've contacted the developer and am waiting for his advice...
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Guess its time for a wipe...
I saw a article a little while back somewhere in xda about being able to unlock the device if usb debugging was enabled
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integramodder said:
I used the Unlock with Wifi app happily with pattern login for months and while browsing through the settings one day successfully enabled the device admin mode login.
Maybe I'm a tinker, or just a masochist...
This meant I had to change my good ol' trusty pattern to a fancy (annoying-to-type) pin. After a few short uses and over a couple days, I disabled the app from within the app's home screen because I didn't notice any kind of difference from the non pin-typing days. Since I was forced to change to the typed pin to enable admin mode, I changed from typed pin back to my pattern pin and enjoyed life. It all went down hill when I re-enabled the app from its home page and turned on my Xoom to a screen asking for a typed pin. Either I don't remember it, or its not being accepted, but I can't unlock the device. I thought it would be like other Android OS' that ask you to login with your Google account to reset the login, but I''ve now done it 50 times and it just give me a message that's keeping count for me.
Is there a way to fix this without wiping? I've contacted the developer and am waiting for his advice...
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Do you have ADB enabled on your device? Is the device rooted?
ProfessorHipster said:
Do you have ADB enabled on your device? Is the device rooted?
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Yes and yes but usb debugging was off so I couldn't connect. I ended up wiping it. Chalk this up to the lesson learned pile...
Yeah formatted my xoom for my first rom ever and forgot to back it up... so I lost everything but oh well hah did you back it up at all?
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ProfessorHipster said:
Yeah formatted my xoom for my first rom ever and forgot to back it up... so I lost everything but oh well hah did you back it up at all?
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I've done nandroids from the past, but at this point I dont feel I lost anything of real value, most of the things that would be replaced were settings and screen layout which would be nice to get back, but this way it'll force me to re-evaluate as I rebuild to see if what I had was still the best...
reset factory via recovery mode... and question how to get recovery mode... turn off your phone and press power+volume up if your phone samsung press power+vol + and home button and choiche factory reset... wait a few minutes and choce reebot....
Congratulation!
You revive an very old thread
This thread is for Motorola Xoom not Samsung
Did you tried this method with your rooted Moto Xoom?
If you want to collect posts make ir in another way
Congratulation!
integramodder said:
Yes and yes but usb debugging was off so I couldn't connect. I ended up wiping it. Chalk this up to the lesson learned pile...
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How did you wiped it? can i know the procedure
OK