It would be really useful to me to retrieve a Wifi password I was given tonight, but did not write down as I entered it into my phone immediately.
I want to wipe my phone and go back to 4.4 for now but before I do I must extract this wifi password. I believe it's saved with google using the backup feature in 5.0.
I've tried via USB debugging looking in /data/misc/wifi but permission is denied.
So, without wiping data what's the easiest solution here? Unlocking boot loader would surely wipe the wifi password? Without unlocking, I can't root and therefore I can't do anything
What about this write Wifi to NFC thing in 5.0? I tried to do this just now but am not in range of the network and the option appears to have disappeared!
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Maybe ask the owner of the wifi you're attempting to hack into for a password?
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Hello, I hope it's the right part of XDA to post my thread as I have serious issues here.
Got my HTC 10 (with Android 6)back from repair today and restored my backup.
But dumb me it seems as if i set a password/patern whatever and i can't remember it.
So after a restart i can't unlock my phone cause it's asking for the code (and won't let unlock only with fingerprint) and i can't remember.
All combination that i would have used are wrong and now i got a working phone back again (after almost 2 month of repairing) and can't unlock it.
Is there any way of bypassing/ignoring the restart password or is it possible to only unlock it again with the fingerprint that is stored?
As i don't know what i should do if i don't get my phone unlocked
I tried to factory reset it andxthat worked but all my apps and data is gone as google seems to only restore some apps and almost no data of the apps.
So i set it up as a new device and only restored /data but immediately after reboot I was asked to put in the forgotten password.
So is there anyway of bypassing the pin/pattern after restart and only unlock the device with the fingerprint that is stored. And if not, is there any way of being able to use my /data after a factory reset again?
Kind regards
Hi, I've been meaning to write this since 2016 or 2017, I think, butI think I can still remember all the important details of this crisis...
So I had rooted this 'Galaxy Avant' phone originally so I could disable/remove the extra stuff of the systems' in the hopes of improving the phones' performance, but I didn't change the OS from whag metropcs gave me at that time. I also had a password and/or a pin lock on both the sd card, startup, and internal memory. Everything was okay until I ran into a wifi issue where it wasn't connecting to a semi-public wifi hotspot, so I thought if I cleared the wifi apps' cache the issue would go away. Trouble was I didn't know that the wifi cache wasfor some reasin the same as the system's cache, and a few seconds after clearing it, my phone crashed, and continued to restart itself. So I panicked and tried removing the password/pin locks for easier backup to recovery/resetting. Well the external sdcard managed to decrypt, but when I proceeded to attempt the same for the device, it decided to factory reset itself.
I lost nearly everything from that event. I did periodic backups to the sd card but not daily and since that phone was also responsible for my own memory retention, at least a month or two of my soul is still missing. Any new contact, commitment, itinerary, life decision, goal, deadline, or other important note from that time was wiped and can't be found anywhere else, and I still don't know who else is or was affected from this (especially if I had just made their acquaitance).
So all that to say I must get this device back to how it was before the cache-wiping incident. The phone hasn't been turned on since, except to dump the system image onto my linux desktop. With testdisk I can see what I assume are the deleted partitions from before the factory reset, but I don't know how to undelete+decrypt them and/or copy them back to the device. Please tell me honestly that there's a way to do this, and what that way is. My functioning really depends on it...
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Hi, I've been meaning to write this since 2016 or 2017, I think, butI think I can still remember all the important details of this crisis...
So I had rooted this 'Galaxy Avant' phone originally so I could disable/remove the extra stuff of the systems' in the hopes of improving the phones' performance, but I didn't change the OS from whag metropcs gave me at that time. I also had a password and/or a pin lock on both the sd card, startup, and internal memory. Everything was okay until I ran into a wifi issue where it wasn't connecting to a semi-public wifi hotspot, so I thought if I cleared the wifi apps' cache the issue would go away. Trouble was I didn't know that the wifi cache wasfor some reasin the same as the system's cache, and a few seconds after clearing it, my phone crashed, and continued to restart itself. So I panicked and tried removing the password/pin locks for easier backup to recovery/resetting. Well the external sdcard managed to decrypt, but when I proceeded to attempt the same for the device, it decided to factory reset itself.
I lost nearly everything from that event. I did periodic backups to the sd card but not daily and since that phone was also responsible for my own memory retention, at least a month or two of my soul is still missing. Any new contact, commitment, itinerary, life decision, goal, deadline, or other important note from that time was wiped and can't be found anywhere else, and I still don't know who else is or was affected from this (especially if I had just made their acquaitance).
So all that to say I must get this device back to how it was before the cache-wiping incident. The phone hasn't been turned on since, except to dump the system image onto my linux desktop. With testdisk I can see what I assume are the deleted partitions from before the factory reset, but I don't know how to undelete+decrypt them and/or copy them back to the device. Please tell me honestly that there's a way to do this, and what that way is. My functioning really depends on it...
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Go to Sammobile .com or samsung-updates .com, enter your model number in their search feature to find your stock firmware. If you can find the firmware, you can use Odin to flash the firmware to restore the device to normal function.
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Droidriven said:
Go to Sammobile .com or samsung-updates .com, enter your model number in their search feature to find your stock firmware. If you can find the firmware, you can use Odin to flash the firmware to restore the device to normal function.
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Thanks, but the device already functions normally; it reset itself to factory defaults, after all.
I just want to be able to restore the device to as it was before the accidental cache wipe—apps as they were, files, and all...
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Thanks, but the device already functions normally; it reset itself to factory defaults, after all.
I just want to be able to restore the device to as it was before the accidental cache wipe—apps as they were, files, and all...
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Oh, you mean you want to recover your lost data. All I can say is try some data recovery software on PC, there isn't any guarantee that it will work though. Data recovery on android is not very reliable.
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My Google Pixel 2 phone is in a bootloop (perpetually showing G logo animation). I don't know if this was triggered by the almost full memory or by a mechanical shock. Simply, one morning it just refused to boot. However, after being stuck for several hours, it booted, worked fine for few hours and then powered off in the middle of taking a photo. Bootlooping since then. I tried various approaches with no success so far. There is locally stored personal data that is very important to me. I would appreciate very much any help provided to understand what is going on and recovering the data.
After discharging the battery completely (freezer) I was able to get into the Recovery menu, sideload two different replacement Android 8.1.0 OTA images via adb following the instructions on Maker, but the phone is still bootlooping. I also tried heating the back of the phone but I could not get it to boot that way either.
Device state is listed as: Boot-slot:a, Console: Disabled, Secure boot: yes (PRODUCTION), Device State: locked. According to recovery file oem flashing is supported but boot flash is currently locked.
What are exactly the limitations of locked device state and disabled console?
I was able to sideload update recovery OTAs. What is exactly locked and what can be still externally modified? The adb sideload process showed success message but the phone is not behaving any different, hence I am confused whether I have indeed managed to replaced the Android system code on my device with those from sideloaded OTA or not?
If yes, what could be the reasons that sideloading clean OTAs (neither the same - build G, nor a newer one - build Q) has not changed the situation at all?
From related posts it seemed that the almost full storage could be preventing the system to boot.
Would it make any sense to try to modify/patch these OTA images with some code that would e.g. delete some unnecessary data on the phone as early as possible in order to make sufficient space for the kernel to load? Perhaps deleting some swap file or temporary data would be sufficient?
Has anyone tried thist?
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anyone?
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anyone?
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First, you won't be able to modify the ota as it's signed by google and you'd need the signing key on any modified file.
If it's an issue with the storage being almost full you might try using adb to pull and then delete any large files you have.
I unlocked the bootloader and was hoping I might be able to backup the user data (by partitions) with TWRP to attempt file recovery but it is encrypted. I never set a Pin/Pass/Pattern lock on the OP8 before doing the oem unlock.
Does oneplus have a default encryption password?
I know what you mean. I've run into that issue before. I am not sure if it is fixed yet, but technically there is no official TWRP for our OnePlus8. I did backup my partitions with one of them floating around but with that one, including another phone back in the day, I am able to backup but when trying to restore, it always gave me errors doing so. Not sure others experiences but as far as I know, there is no default encryption password.
You can try setting a pin in the security settings of your phone and going back to TWRP and seeing if the pin will take at that section.
Thanks for the reply.
I had luckily backed up the files I thought I had lost so it was moot anyway. I