One day i was just opening my tablet and saw that my fingerprint got vanished and its asking me the alternative passwords. I remembered the one on the owner account and opened it and then I changed it to swipe and back to fingerprint... My account was alright then.. it had the fingerprint back in not time. BUT the standard user.. the other one.. i dont remember its password. Ive tried so many, those which i just thought of but did not put them ever in anything.. but it was no use.. if there is one password left, ITS THE ONE BUT I DONT REMEMBER IT.. that account has the most data in it so i cant afford to loose any data.. i wanted to know that if there is some way of removing passwords from the whole Android Device? Or Changing Passwords? Or Administrators for changing the passwords... anything i just want it back... another thing is that after the 5 unsuccessful tries.. it does not say unlock via google maybe because it is standard user... Please tell me how to do it Step-by-Step... please... ull be a lifesaver!
READ ALL OF IT PLEASE.. MAIN THING IN THE END. STEP BY STEP WORK NEEDED... SERIOUS PROBLEM.. MAY SEE THE ATTACHED PHOTO!
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. There is a reason you use passwords and that's if someone doesn't know the password they can't get to the data. The only way to reset the password is to wipe the device and lose data. There is a dedicated forum for your device here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s They are the experts on your device and the best place to get your questions answered.
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Is it possible to implement a password into recovery.img (like cyanogens or JF's) So that not just anyone could wipe the phone if they stole it.
Good question.
I only bring this up because I have had my phone stolen and it was locked so Im sure they wiped and also I am trying to make my phone as secure as possible for this next go-around I have already Moved my apps like "MobileDefense" and "Sim Checker" to "/system/app" Which makes them unable to be uninstalled by any thing other than a wipe. So I figure if the Recovery was locked It would completely solve my issue and I would be able to get my phone back no matter what unless it was broken.
i would like this, i am always parannoid that something bad is gonna happen like i lose my phone or someone steals it. this would mean a wipe would be impossible, and the only way to restart teh phone would be to pull the battery if you don't know the password.
the only issue would be that we would have to have a way to set the password which might be difficult to implement
tubaking182 said:
i would like this, i am always parannoid that something bad is gonna happen like i lose my phone or someone steals it. this would mean a wipe would be impossible, and the only way to restart teh phone would be to pull the battery if you don't know the password.
the only issue would be that we would have to have a way to set the password which might be difficult to implement
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Yes it might be difficult. There could even be a list of preset passwords to choose from (as I doubt anyone from here will be stealing my phone) It would just make me feel better to have the added security.
This would be nice to have, but also just to give you something to think about, what if you forget that password? maybe they should also implement a master password as well, incase of lost or forgotten paswords.
Lost Password = Enter Master password.
which makes it harder to factory reset, but not impossible if forgotten password
insanedrunk said:
This would be nice to have, but also just to give you something to think about, what if you forget that password? maybe they should also implement a master password as well, incase of lost or forgotten paswords.
Lost Password = Enter Master password.
which makes it harder to factory reset, but not impossible if forgotten password
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I would say dont for get it lol. But I do like your Idea about the master password.
nicholasbithell said:
Yes it might be difficult. There could even be a list of preset passwords to choose from (as I doubt anyone from here will be stealing my phone) It would just make me feel better to have the added security.
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I like the idea about having a password but I don't agree with having preset passwords because all the perp has to do is go on here and find them out. Lol.
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I would say dont for get it lol. But I do like your Idea about the master password.
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Thanks, i had a phone that let me set two passwords before, incase i forgot one, i for sure knew the other one.
preset passwords is a bad idea and so is a master password. i guarantee you that if the person found a G1 or stole it they would run a google search and find XDA. xda is the #1 source for all HTC phones, i found an 8525 and when i needed to learn anything about that i got on google and searched for stuff. 9/10 times this site was the first result. i would think if we were to implement this then we would have to have a walkthrough for people to build their own recovery image and set their own password. this would be a little difficult but it seems to be the only way to do this.
tubaking182 said:
preset passwords is a bad idea and so is a master password. i guarantee you that if the person found a G1 or stole it they would run a google search and find XDA. xda is the #1 source for all HTC phones, i found an 8525 and when i needed to learn anything about that i got on google and searched for stuff. 9/10 times this site was the first result. i would think if we were to implement this then we would have to have a walkthrough for people to build their own recovery image and set their own password. this would be a little difficult but it seems to be the only way to do this.
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I see your point, but i think i didnt explain myself correctly, the master password can be set by you (the enduser), sorry i misslead you guys.
tubaking182 said:
preset passwords is a bad idea and so is a master password. i guarantee you that if the person found a G1 or stole it they would run a google search and find XDA. xda is the #1 source for all HTC phones, i found an 8525 and when i needed to learn anything about that i got on google and searched for stuff. 9/10 times this site was the first result. i would think if we were to implement this then we would have to have a walkthrough for people to build their own recovery image and set their own password. this would be a little difficult but it seems to be the only way to do this.
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I suppose that is the only way to go! I hope a Dev can help us out with this!
The problems I can see are that the recovery environment has no place to store files, it's read only. You'd have to build an image with the password hardcoded somewhere. The other issue is that if you have rooted your phone, you probably have installed an SPL that has fastboot, so getting into your device would be trivial.
cyanogen said:
The problems I can see are that the recovery environment has no place to store files, it's read only. You'd have to build an image with the password hardcoded somewhere. The other issue is that if you have rooted your phone, you probably have installed an SPL that has fastboot, so getting into your device would be trivial.
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I understand but when you say "trivial" I assume you are referring to someone who has and idea of how to Hack the phone, But I assume that the person who steals it is not going to have the smarts to do all that without me first being able to track my phone. I just want alittle extra security.
The other part, the "Hardcoding" I do not really understand, I assume it means built in?
He means the password (or possible passwords) would have to be coded into the recovery.img that is on your phone. Meaning, either you would have to assemble it yourself, or the developers would set the password (or passwords, if given a choice) for you. Which would also mean that anyone would be able to search on here (or other sites) and find the possible choices for passwords for a given recovery image. Thus... security... fail..
daveid said:
He means the password (or possible passwords) would have to be coded into the recovery.img that is on your phone. Meaning, either you would have to assemble it yourself, or the developers would set the password (or passwords, if given a choice) for you. Which would also mean that anyone would be able to search on here (or other sites) and find the possible choices for passwords for a given recovery image. Thus... security... fail..
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You *could* store it on the data partition, I guess. Would just have to mount it to check for a password file.
put pwd in the recovery partition is better~
we can have a defalut password then we can change it in recovery mode
with google latitude it will be awesome~~~
So... Cyanogen I think I hear donations coming your way for this one... haha jk
That is if your willing to try, Im not assuming you are going to.
But your recovery would be the one I would want it to be on.
i would donate on that
Can you use fastboot to actually get data from the device? I thought it's only there to flash images. I mainly am for the password in recovery to prevent someone from dumping my data to an SD card.
Sorry, as you can see, its my first post and i dont exactly know where to put, but i want to share,because i spend hours of searching the net and my device.
I had the problem, that i forgot the password for the googlemail-account linked to the market and found no solution to change it. So i searched a little bit and found a fast solution which was working for me.
So i just took the /data/system/accounts.db file, opened it by using SQLite Database Browser and changed the address to the new one and deleted the stored password. After reboot and accessing the market, i was asked for the password, entered the new one and voila, all was fine.
Sorry, if its the wrong forum.
btw, my device is a rooted desire, with "Official_FroYo_Market_fixed" ROM
Interesting!
Is it also possible to change a google account without resetting whole device?
Yes it is possible.
It was my aim to change it without resetting the device and this is the solution. No need to reset anything.
CreaB said:
Yes it is possible.
It was my aim to change it without resetting the device and this is the solution. No need to reset anything.
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download the free Super Manager from the market, give it root , keep moving up folders to root, go to /data/system/ and just delete accounts.db it is quicker to just reenter the account info , by the time you go through all the steps to edit that file and the know what to change your finished entering the account info, I just had to do this I put my wifes account on my phone, tried everyway to remove her which a search landed me here, I downloaded Sq but just to much to do so I found super manager while searching the market for help
Thanks for the hint! Deleting the accounts.db worked very well for me.
Great share, thank you!
Another aspect is the mail associated with a purchase. Currently I can change the email for my vendor account, but it isn't possible to shift the purchase profile to another email account as far as I know.
If anybody got an idea/solution to that, it would be more than appreciated.
guys,
I need help, I read above method of reset market logon, so I deleted account.db with rootexplorer. Then I start market again, it ask me signon. This is working, remove my wife logon information.
Then I put in detail id and password, but I am getting network error, my phone on 3G network, my browser able to visit any web page. But the market apps just not connecting. What did I do want ?
thanks
James
this worked for market, but unfortunately not for google talk.
dLo GSR said:
this worked for market, but unfortunately not for google talk.
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as the topic says =)
sorry if this is posted elswhere but i have look for the past hour for this answer.
i have the amazon appstore installed on my desire hd, but im in the uk.
i made a fake email and set it up to look like im in the US.
now i want to install custom mods on my phone but i cant remember the email i used to register with amazon.
no where can i find it mentioned in the app and no where can i find any data on my unrooted DHD.
i no what password i used but just need the email i used.
is there anyway i can find out which email ive used.
i ask because i dont want to lose all the free apps of the day that i have.
thanks in advance
Same problem here... I dont think its possible to recover login email. the appstore saves an encrypted file with your device data, so if you backup and then restore in the same device, should be no problem
killerbender said:
Same problem here... I dont think its possible to recover login email. the appstore saves an encrypted file with your device data, so if you backup and then restore in the same device, should be no problem
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will i be able to do this without root access.
i ask because i was stupid enough to believe htc when they said the latest update will fix wifi problems but instead it just unrooted my phone and left wifi broken
I have this application known as empowr and earns me some bit of income. The problem is when I want to cash out. The application is able to lock one phone with one empowr account such that I can`t cash out any other account on my phone. I have tried changing imei, device ID, ROM but every time I try again, it still remembers my account. I want to know if there is a place the application stores this information and if I can access it and delete it. It definitely isn't in the root folder since the application does not request root access. The other thing is, before you cash out you request a cash out key....This key is what permanently associates your account with the phone. I now this sounds weird but I really need help bypassing this.
Hi,
You can talk to the app developer for help. And Xda isn't here to help anyone earn money, and we don't discuss imei tampering here either.
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Combination file help
Not sure but I need to frp bypass
I think I can downgrade file as long as it's a sqs5
Bootloader 5
n950usqs5crj3
Any help could be great
Makave71 said:
Combination file help
Not sure but I need to frp bypass
I think I can downgrade file as long as it's a sqs5
Bootloader 5
n950usqs5crj3
Any help could be great
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Why do you need to bypass the FRP? Just put your email and password in and you'll be fine and won't need to do that.
Well I buy it cheap off someone that couldn't do anything with it because he don't know much so now I'm trying to do this so my wife can use the phone
If you can help with that great
Because I know the obvious way is put in info lol
Makave71 said:
Well I buy it cheap off someone that couldn't do anything with it because he don't know much so now I'm trying to do this so my wife can use the phone
If you can help with that great
Because I know the obvious way is put in info lol
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Sorry man I can't help you because when someone is trying to bypass the FRP security it's usually because the phone was stolen from someone and I'd rather not give out my combination firmware for that reason.. You can call the carrier that the phone came from and ask them to help you and if it hasn't been reported stolen then they'll get it off.
Discussions about FRP without proof of ownership aren't allowed on XDA.
FRP is there for exactly this reason, its meant to protect stolen phones from being used again illegally.
This is Samsung's instructions on what you can do about FRP:
If you already reset your device, but don't remember your Google username and/or password, the device can't be used. In that case, you can do one of these:
If you know your Google username but can't remember the password, you can reset your password on the device, or at www.google.com. It can take up to 24 hours for a new password to sync with all registered devices. After 24 hours, you can try logging in to your phone with the new password.
If you have multiple Google Accounts, and you can't remember which Google Account you set up on your device, visit https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager.
Log in with your Google username and password and check the list of devices registered to the account. If you don't see the device listed on the account, it means the device is registered to a different account. Use the same process to check for devices linked to your other Google Accounts. When you find the registered account, use it to log in to your device.
If you can't remember any of your Google Account information, you can send your device, along with proof of purchase, to an authorized Samsung Service Center. Samsung has special tools to reset the phone to factory defaults with no protection enabled.
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Source: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/frp/
Furthermore:
If you've bought a phone that is FRP locked you should take it up with the seller and get them to tell you what the Google sign-in details are, and if they refuse to tell you then make sure you ask where they got the phone from. Do not try to break the lock yourself!
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