When I setup my work email via the built-in email app, my company's sync server asked that I give it permission to encrypt the phone and after I gave it permission, it rebooted (it will only allow you to encrypt if the battery is like almost or fully charged), started the encryption on reboot. After the encryption, when it came back up, it asked the pin/password - which I entered - to decrypt the storage.
But the phone came up as brand new - all the apps that were installed on the device were wiped out, it asked for my Google password again to restore the account. But what was strangest of them all was, it came up in a state where WiFi cannot be turned on now While booting it says Turning on WiFi and it gets stuck there, but then I have to press Skip for it to proceed.
I am now stuck with a OnePlus device with an encrypted storage but no WiFi. Anybody run into this situation? If so, how did you resolve this?
sgwd said:
When I setup my work email via the built-in email app, my company's sync server asked that I give it permission to encrypt the phone and after I gave it permission, it rebooted (it will only allow you to encrypt if the battery is like almost or fully charged), started the encryption on reboot. After the encryption, when it came back up, it asked the pin/password - which I entered - to decrypt the storage.
But the phone came up as brand new - all the apps that were installed on the device were wiped out, it asked for my Google password again to restore the account. But what was strangest of them all was, it came up in a state where WiFi cannot be turned on now While booting it says Turning on WiFi and it gets stuck there, but then I have to press Skip for it to proceed.
I am now stuck with a OnePlus device with an encrypted storage but no WiFi. Anybody run into this situation? If so, how did you resolve this?
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I'm in the exact same boat. Encrypted the phone, reset all data, and now, no wifi.
Same Problem
khaspir said:
I'm in the exact same boat. Encrypted the phone, reset all data, and now, no wifi.
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I did my encryption today due to the company policy and facing the same wifi problems. Please let me know what the resolution for this?
Same problem here, running latest OTA.
Valme00 said:
Same problem here, running latest OTA.
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Lost all my data yesterday after trying to encrypt my phone. Formatted /data to restore ext4 and made a clean Reset/Flash.
As all my data was lost anyway, this was the cleanest solution back to a working phone.
I want to have my phone f*cking encrypted. I can tolerate that this is an issue with custom roms made by private fellas in their free time for fun.
But as a company...?! At least removing this point from the menu would have been an option
I had the same issue with work email and my new OnePlus One. Here's how I fixed it:
1. Factory reset the One.
2. When you turn on the phone for the first time, don't set anything up, just go straight into settings and encrypt the phone.
3. After the encryption is complete, you'll have to set up your phone again.
4. Before installing anything else, set up your work email. You'll still be prompted for the security administrator privileges, but when it gets to the point where it would normally demand that you encrypt, it sees that you are already encrypted, and nothing bad happens to your wifi.
I hope this helps, it took me a whole day of fiddling to figure it out.
sgwd said:
When I setup my work email via the built-in email app, my company's sync server asked that I give it permission to encrypt the phone and after I gave it permission, it rebooted (it will only allow you to encrypt if the battery is like almost or fully charged), started the encryption on reboot. After the encryption, when it came back up, it asked the pin/password - which I entered - to decrypt the storage.
But the phone came up as brand new - all the apps that were installed on the device were wiped out, it asked for my Google password again to restore the account. But what was strangest of them all was, it came up in a state where WiFi cannot be turned on now While booting it says Turning on WiFi and it gets stuck there, but then I have to press Skip for it to proceed.
I am now stuck with a OnePlus device with an encrypted storage but no WiFi. Anybody run into this situation? If so, how did you resolve this?
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Hey guys
I flashed the factory images last night effectively wiping my Nexus 5 and starting from scratch. I did not restore apps and settings either. After I manually installed a bunch of my apps back and changed around a few settings, I decided to enable encryption. However, I don't think it enabled properly.
First, I had not set a PIN lock on my phone yet at the time.
When I decided to enable encryption and go through the process, it didn't ask me to enter a PIN.
It seemingly completed encrypting the phone. When I go back to the security menu, it says "Encrypted".
However, I am not prompted to enter a PIN upon booting the phone (not talking about the lock screen PIN).
So, it seems like it didn't work but I'm not sure. Has anyone else enabled encryption yet?
and yes, I saw the performance degradation that comes with enabling encryption but I'd rather have the security.
definitely sounds like there's an issue there. Do you have a custom recovery? If so, you could boot into that, pull some data and see if it opens. If it does, yeah its not encrypted.
Not worth mentioning degradation. All encryption always has and always will have performance degradation. It's par for the course
That sounds like a good idea. If it's not encrypted, then I guess the only method is to wipe and reinstall again.
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That sounds like a good idea. If it's not encrypted, then I guess the only method is to wipe and reinstall again.
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I think so. You can't reverse the encryption flag without a wipe I dont think
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Hey guys
I flashed the factory images last night effectively wiping my Nexus 5 and starting from scratch. I did not restore apps and settings either. After I manually installed a bunch of my apps back and changed around a few settings, I decided to enable encryption. However, I don't think it enabled properly.
First, I had not set a PIN lock on my phone yet at the time.
When I decided to enable encryption and go through the process, it didn't ask me to enter a PIN.
It seemingly completed encrypting the phone. When I go back to the security menu, it says "Encrypted".
However, I am not prompted to enter a PIN upon booting the phone (not talking about the lock screen PIN).
So, it seems like it didn't work but I'm not sure. Has anyone else enabled encryption yet?
and yes, I saw the performance degradation that comes with enabling encryption but I'd rather have the security.
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Not sure, but i think it's designed to works just like that, the encryption key is not the PIN anymore but something (random?) that is stored somewhere on the phone.
that would protect the data in case someone tries to read it directly from the phone's memory, but useless if you don;t have a PIN/PASSWORD.
I avoided encryption before for exactly that reason (requiring a password to boot). If I lose the phone I want the person that found/stole it to be able to at least boot it. if the person is not a thief there's a contact number so they can call me to give it back. if he/she's a thief well, as long as it's on I can call it, track it, wipe it. even brick it.
by not being able to boot it, the chances of getting it back are 0 if the battery dies or is dead!
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/28/google-android-lollipop-encryption-issues
there isn't much info out there about it.
kenshin33 said:
Not sure, but i think it's designed to works just like that, the encryption key is not the PIN anymore but something (random?) that is stored somewhere on the phone.
that would protect the data in case someone tries to read it directly from the phone's memory, but useless if you don;t have a PIN/PASSWORD.
I avoided encryption before for exactly that reason (requiring a password to boot). If I lose the phone I want the person that found/stole it to be able to at least boot it. if the person is not a thief there's a contact number so they can call me to give it back. if he/she's a thief well, as long as it's on I can call it, track it, wipe it. even brick it.
by not being able to boot it, the chances of getting it back are 0 if the battery dies or is dead!
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/28/google-android-lollipop-encryption-issues
there isn't much info out there about it.
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I went ahead and wiped the phone again. I reinstalled lollipop and made sure to enable a lockscreen PIN before I enabled encryption. It seems to have encrypted properly. It prompts me for my PIN at boot up now.
You make a good point about encryption making it more difficult for someone to get a hold of me if I lose the phone though.
Same problem here, with Nexus 5 and Android v5
My work Exchange server enforces a security policy to the phone which forces you to enable encryption. So I went ahead and did that, and the email app is still saying that encryption needs to be enabled. When I reboot the phone I never get prompted for a PIN to decrypt the device, yet in the settings screen it says it is encrypted.
I'm going to have to re-flash. Is it possible the issue is caused by leaving the bootloader unlocked? or is this is a bug?
EDIT: Update. Reflashed, but first thing I did was relock the bootloader and enable a security screenlock PIN, *then* encrypted the phone. Now it's prompting me for a PIN on boot and looks like it's worked. Hope the Exchange email policy stays happy this time, as it worked before for about a day before it complained about the lack of encryption
this worked for me also
I did what was stated below and it worked....
1. reflashed,
2. locked bootloader
3. created lock pin
4. encrypted, THEN
5. added MDM control (MAAS360) and exchange email.
It seems to work OK now.
Thanks!
JoyrexJ9 said:
Same problem here, with Nexus 5 and Android v5
My work Exchange server enforces a security policy to the phone which forces you to enable encryption. So I went ahead and did that, and the email app is still saying that encryption needs to be enabled. When I reboot the phone I never get prompted for a PIN to decrypt the device, yet in the settings screen it says it is encrypted.
I'm going to have to re-flash. Is it possible the issue is caused by leaving the bootloader unlocked? or is this is a bug?
EDIT: Update. Reflashed, but first thing I did was relock the bootloader and enable a security screenlock PIN, *then* encrypted the phone. Now it's prompting me for a PIN on boot and looks like it's worked. Hope the Exchange email policy stays happy this time, as it worked before for about a day before it complained about the lack of encryption
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Hey guys
I flashed the factory images last night effectively wiping my Nexus 5 and starting from scratch. I did not restore apps and settings either. After I manually installed a bunch of my apps back and changed around a few settings, I decided to enable encryption. However, I don't think it enabled properly.
First, I had not set a PIN lock on my phone yet at the time.
When I decided to enable encryption and go through the process, it didn't ask me to enter a PIN.
It seemingly completed encrypting the phone. When I go back to the security menu, it says "Encrypted".
However, I am not prompted to enter a PIN upon booting the phone (not talking about the lock screen PIN).
So, it seems like it didn't work but I'm not sure. Has anyone else enabled encryption yet?
and yes, I saw the performance degradation that comes with enabling encryption but I'd rather have the security.
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If you set up a screen lock pin the phone will ask you then if you would like the PIN to be enabled or not at boot.
kenshin33 said:
Not sure, but i think it's designed to works just like that, the encryption key is not the PIN anymore but something (random?) that is stored somewhere on the phone.
that would protect the data in case someone tries to read it directly from the phone's memory, but useless if you don;t have a PIN/PASSWORD.
I avoided encryption before for exactly that reason (requiring a password to boot). If I lose the phone I want the person that found/stole it to be able to at least boot it. if the person is not a thief there's a contact number so they can call me to give it back. if he/she's a thief well, as long as it's on I can call it, track it, wipe it. even brick it.
by not being able to boot it, the chances of getting it back are 0 if the battery dies or is dead!
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/28/google-android-lollipop-encryption-issues
there isn't much info out there about it.
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Sorry for OT, but how can you remotely brick your phone? Just curious in case I ever need to. Don't live in the best of neighborhoods. I can remote wipe, track, take pics. The normal lost/stolen stuff, but I haven't heard of remotely bricking a phone ever.
Nexus 5 still looking to be encrypted
Only a temp fix---Both my Nexus 7, and Nexus 5 just started asked to be encrypted again....
This is still a problem with Lollipop
thegasmaster said:
I did what was stated below and it worked....
1. reflashed,
2. locked bootloader
3. created lock pin
4. encrypted, THEN
5. added MDM control (MAAS360) and exchange email.
It seems to work OK now.
Thanks!
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wipe efs partition (I do have a backup on my computer) and the phone is no longer a phone.
Just to be clear, you can enable encryption on Android 5.0, and it will not force you to lock the phone. (Like the PIN screen and boot lock). When you buy a Nexus 6/9 the data partition is encrypted but there's no lock set. The following is from this article;
First, the encryption doesn't help much if you haven't set a passcode. Ludwig said studies have shown that roughly have of users don't set passcodes on their devices, largely because they find it inconvenient to keep entering them dozens of times a day. Lollipop will still encrypt your data, but it will also automatically decrypt it in normal use. So if you don't have a passcode, much of your information will be available to anyone who picks up your phone.
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So if you've enabled encryption, and gone through the process, you're phone data partition is encrypted. It's just not locked down until you use some kind of phone lock too. BTW, the article goes on to describe the limited usefulness of having an encrypted data partition and no phone lock;
Lollipop's encryption still offers some limited protection even under those circumstances—for instance, by protecting stored data against anyone who tries to read it directly from the phone's memory. That could shield user passwords and other sensitive data from attackers.
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As to why Exchange policies don't see the phone as encrypted is probably due to another issue.
Setting PIN to be required at startup after encryption possible fix
I now have my Nexus 5 & 7 working with exchange on Lollipop using this-
1. Reflashed Lollipop
2. Let phone reinstall all my apps
3. Locked bootloader.
4. Set a screen lock PIN
5. Encrypt phone
6. Set screen lock PIN to be required on start up (this was missing before!)
7. Installed MDM control via Mass360-all policies look to be met, including encryption
8. Installed my exchange account via Gmail
//code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79342
Updated thread with solution
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* It used to be that when I did a reboot or shutdown and restart, I would have to enter a password before the system fully started.
* But now the phone boots into the phone without putting in my password. I can reboot the phone and it will boot all the way to the Lock screen, and I can unlock the lock screen with my fingerprint or my backup password.
* I am concerned that somehow my device is either no longer encrypted or that there is some setting which has stored the boot password.
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Solution :
For those of you who find they have this problem and have not solved it, I found a solution that works, related to a bug (feature?) in Accessibility.
Apologies if this was suggested further in the thread, and that I'm replying to an old post. But I recently had this problem and figured out a solution.
- Accessibility was enabled and for some reason this cached the boot password. So- when I removed the app (rights) and turned off accessibility, and changed (reset/reentered) the password in security settings... On next boot the phone correctly asked me for password.
YMMV.
subs said:
I posted this elsewhere... But I'm having the same problem. Any thoughts? I can post more details, but don't want to repost this everywhere that I see people having the same unresolved problem.
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* It used to be that when I did a reboot or shutdown and restart, I would have to enter a password before the system fully started.
* But now the phone boots into the phone without putting in my password. I can reboot the phone and it will boot all the way to the Lock screen, and I can unlock the lock screen with my fingerprint or my backup password.
* I am concerned that somehow my device is either no longer encrypted or that there is some setting which has stored the boot password.
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Hi, please try not to bump threads almost a year old. I realise that it might have taken you a while to actually reach this thread, but hear me out.
Opening a new thread is always better, since software versions, features and devices are most likely different, along with different device usage habits/users.
You say you're having "the same problem"... as.. who exactly? There's a bunch of different specific "issues" that relate to encryption. Be specific.
For instance, you mentioning fingerprint sensor leads me to presume that you are not using a Nexus 5.
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I updated my OnePlus One via OTA to Lollipop, however experienced some issues afterwards, why I factory reset the phone (still being Lollipop, however in a clean state).
First thing I wanted to do was to enable full disk encryption.
Having nothing configured so far - not even the lock screen (hence I didn't configure any PIN/pattern/passhrase so far) - I activated encryption.
I didn't get asked for any PIN/pattern/passphrase. After "encryption" finished, the phone rebooted as usual, however *not* showing me any prompt (what should I've entered anyway?) but Settings -> Security -> Encryption now prints "Encrypted".
Since Encryption can't be undone without a factory reset I'm now having a phone which says it is encrypted, but not asking me for anything when powering it on.
My assumption is - although I don't know for sure - that several people configure the Lock screen before and then switching to full disk encryption - let them believe their phone got encrypted.
I hope I'm totally mistaken here, but right now it feels like full disk encryption on my OnePlus One with the official firmware is completly bogus!
Any comment on this is highly appreciated!
[email protected] said:
I updated my OnePlus One via OTA to Lollipop, however experienced some issues afterwards, why I factory reset the phone (still being Lollipop, however in a clean state).
First thing I wanted to do was to enable full disk encryption.
Having nothing configured so far - not even the lock screen (hence I didn't configure any PIN/pattern/passhrase so far) - I activated encryption.
I didn't get asked for any PIN/pattern/passphrase. After "encryption" finished, the phone rebooted as usual, however *not* showing me any prompt (what should I've entered anyway?) but Settings -> Security -> Encryption now prints "Encrypted".
Since Encryption can't be undone without a factory reset I'm now having a phone which says it is encrypted, but not asking me for anything when powering it on.
My assumption is - although I don't know for sure - that several people configure the Lock screen before and then switching to full disk encryption - let them believe their phone got encrypted.
I hope I'm totally mistaken here, but right now it feels like full disk encryption on my OnePlus One with the official firmware is completly bogus!
Any comment on this is highly appreciated!
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Your phone is encrypted although without a pin or password set it isn't much use. Perhaps a flaw that your phone doesn't ask you to set one up when going through the process (I thought it did). Although initially it was enabled out of the box (with 5.0 - see Nexus 6) but that would mean maybe asking to set up one to when a person first goes through the set up on their phone, which it didn't do (to my knowledge). Also not everyone wants to use a pin/pass to unlock. The security for certain things is enhanced with fde without a pin pass but obviously if it's protected with a password with fde then it should be well secured.
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/28/google-android-lollipop-encryption-issues
Model: SM - G920W8 (Canadian)
I recently purchased an s6 (1 month) and used the fingerprint scanner to secure the device. I made a backup password and made sure it worked and all was well until one day when it all of a sudden stopped working. Normally I leave Wifi on and could solve this issue but as to save battery I had disabled it this time around, silly me. So the fingerprint scanner denied my entry, led me to the backup password which also failed (even though it was correct) and then Wifi was off so Google verification did not work.
Being a new phone, I did not get a chance to turn on USB debugging (this happened 1 week after purchase) so using ADB to turn on wifi was of no use, it did not recognize the device.
Here is what I have tried to do to recover the data up till now:
>I used ODIN to install TWRP on the device.
>With TWRP enabled I made a backup of the data and attempted to connect to adb once again, Using my sisters Galaxy S6 I tested out whether hers worked, just to make sure everything was fine with the drivers and to make sure adb devices recognized her phone: it did.
>I ran ADB devices while in TWRP and it recognized my device, but came back OFFLINE, meaning no commands were able to run.
>I then attempted to run a series of drivers and to access files directly from windows 7 and did not have access permissions to read nor write, thus unsuccessful.
>I went back to ODIN and sought out a stock rom to flash to the partition in order to get access to the backup data i had created using TWRP, as there seems to be methods to flash a rom and maintain the backup data.
> With ODIN i tried this, but was unsuccessful, as it got stuck on "Nand Write start" and would not initialize any transfer with the phone . ( The download mode would not start the progress bar)
>Finally i tried to do it with TWRP but because i have no write permissions, i cannot put anything onto the device for it to run.
I called Samsung about this and they know of the issue and refuse to help me other than a useless factory reset. They knowingly allow users to continue using their fingerprint option for security but do not give warning of its issue, nor do they provide a simple fix like allowing wifi to be turned on from the lock screen. It is a shame that a company like this just allows a known software bug to bother users but doesn't make them aware of it, nor provides a temporary fix while they work on fixing the issue.
I am stuck, and need your help, I have done everything I can think of but can't get anywhere, please help me retrieve my data. Thanks
Wifi is off but how about 4G/LTE data?
If your 4g lte data is working you can use findmymobile(samsung site) and unlock it from there. There's an option to unlock your phone. I came across this issue last month.
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Yeah LTE is also off, otherwise google login would have worked.
I can access the WiFi toggle from the lockscreen without having unlocked the phone via FP - although I'm not locked out the phone so wondering if being locked out stops you gaining access to the notification drawer as well
EddyOS said:
I can access the WiFi toggle from the lockscreen without having unlocked the phone via FP - although I'm not locked out the phone so wondering if being locked out stops you gaining access to the notification drawer as well
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Via FP? well I can indeed access the notification drawer (from the top, right?) but when i enable wifi it asks me to login using the fingerprint.
EddyOS said:
I can access the WiFi toggle from the lockscreen without having unlocked the phone via FP - although I'm not locked out the phone so wondering if being locked out stops you gaining access to the notification drawer as well
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What does "FP" stand for?
Shady_D said:
Via FP? well I can indeed access the notification drawer (from the top, right?) but when i enable wifi it asks me to login using the fingerprint.
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sparky2012 said:
What does "FP" stand for?
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FP - Finger Print
i have the same problem what to do now i dont want to lose data and my s6 edge is not recognising my fingerprint rather asking for a backup password and i forgot the backup password so the wifi or mobile data is switched off and i cant even turn it on what to do now?????
I have the same problem...agree completely "They knowingly allow users to continue using their fingerprint option for security but do not give warning of its issue, nor do they provide a simple fix like allowing wifi to be turned on from the lock screen. It is a shame that a company like this just allows a known software bug to bother users but doesn't make them aware of it, nor provides a temporary fix while they work on fixing the issue."
factory reset is "the only way" to unlock it. Lazy samsung customer service response.
logging in via google is not an option on S6 / new android system anymore so if you forget your pin you're stuffed
this is really poor on samsung behalf to not give warning of the seriousness of using a fingerprint scanner
ha I can't remember (and can't check now) but does it even ask for the pin twice to verify what you entered what was intended?
google use to have a device pin reset but it was removed recently.
I bet heaps of people have this issue.
I am desperate for a solution...
I just registered to help future users having the same problem.
Guys I spent around 15 hours trying to unlock my samsung galaxy s6, and found a solution. You're wellcome because you need google acc+dont need a connection for this to work (worst case scenario).
It didnt recongnize my fingerprints, and my backup password didnt work. I couldnt sign in to my google account since my wifi and mobile data was turned off before the device locked.
This is the solution i found AFTER 15 hours of this madness, you need to be quick:
1) enter wrong backup password 5 times
2) wait 30 secounds countdown
3) enter wrong backup password 5 times
4) wait 30 secounds countdown
5) select sign in with google account
6) enter google account credentials (DONT SIGN IN YET)
7) hold 'wake up button' (home button)
8) press emergency mode and go thru with aggreeing to all it asks you to
9) press TURN ON, and after that press 'sign in' with your google account (where step 6 left off)
If you were quick enough, you will enter emergency mode and you will pass the lock screen, now quit the emergency mode the same way and change your backup password, and write it down this time so this doesnt happen again. You are wellcome.
Thank you, that happened on 4th try, "quick enough" is the key. It appears that it turns on WiFi and mobile data for fraction of a second during the process.
yeah i seen that for a fraction of seconds wifi turns on but how should i unlock i am not done please please help me i dont want to lose my imp data
THANK YOU!!!
Diablola said:
I just registered to help future users having the same problem.
Guys I spent around 15 hours trying to unlock my samsung galaxy s6, and found a solution. You're wellcome because you need google acc+dont need a connection for this to work (worst case scenario).
It didnt recongnize my fingerprints, and my backup password didnt work. I couldnt sign in to my google account since my wifi and mobile data was turned off before the device locked.
This is the solution i found AFTER 15 hours of this madness, you need to be quick:
1) enter wrong backup password 5 times
2) wait 30 secounds countdown
3) enter wrong backup password 5 times
4) wait 30 secounds countdown
5) select sign in with google account
6) enter google account credentials (DONT SIGN IN YET)
7) hold 'wake up button' (home button)
8) press emergency mode and go thru with aggreeing to all it asks you to
9) press TURN ON, and after that press 'sign in' with your google account (where step 6 left off)
If you were quick enough, you will enter emergency mode and you will pass the lock screen, now quit the emergency mode the same way and change your backup password, and write it down this time so this doesnt happen again. You are wellcome.
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Created an account just so I can thank you :laugh: You've made my night; am so happy and stress-free now!
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.
famewolf said:
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.
TL;DR - Phone will not accept correct encrypt password. Need to dump data partition to computer and decrypt from there, or something like that.
So I have a Nokia 6.1 from 2018 that I used for just about a year. I upgraded to a nicer phone during summer 2019, at which point I transferred all the data I thought I needed, turned the power off, put the phone on a shelf and forgot about it for many months. I remember when I last powered it down, the battery was fully charged. Quite some time later I realized I needed to retrieve some important data written down in an old OneNote account that was synced with that phone and nothing else. Upon logging in, I discovered Microsoft had wiped the account clean due to an extended period of inactivity, meaning the only copy of that data now exists on that phone and nowhere else.
When I dug out the phone and tried to power it up, the battery was completely flat. I plugged it in and it booted up okay, but it would not accept the passphrase to unlock. I can only assume this is due to some sort of bug in Android (I believe it is running 9 Pie, but I don't remember for certain), as I know for a fact the password is correct. I've been putting off trying to unlock this thing for over a year now, but it needs to be done. I've noticed over my several attempts to enter the password that the phone has been behaving somewhat erratically. For example, it doesn't always respond to the power button right away. I'll try to press it again, and the screen will blink on and off several times. Also, when I first tried to unlock the phone, I could enter the passphrase as many times as I wanted, but now when I try, it locks me out for 30 seconds after each attempt, and also notifies me of the total number of failed attempts. When I reboot the phone, the failed attempt counter resets to zero.
Do I have any recourse here? Since I know the passphrase, is it possible to dump the encrypted data partition to my computer and decrypt it from there? The phone is not rooted, nor does it have any custom ROMs or anything like that. I appreciate any help anyone can give.
Quick addendum, I attempted to sideload the final OTA update sourced from the Nokia OTA Repository on Telegram onto the phone via recovery mode. It is running Android 10 now but still no luck unlocking. Interestingly, however, the failed attempt counter now appears to be working correctly, indicating I have entered the incorrect passphrase 31 times now. I'm not sure how many more times I can do that before it wipes everything.