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Lock screen pattern changed on its own, possible bug

I unlocked my phone normally several times today using my pattern. Five minutes after I had unlocked it, I picked it back up and drew my pattern and it said it was incorrect. I tried several more times with no change. I was able to unlock the phone using my fingerprint, but I have no idea how my pattern changed without my permission. If my phone dies or restarts for any reason, I will need the pattern to unlock it, as you can't use fingerprint on start up. (I've had the same unlock pattern since my last phone, so I'm sure I am putting it in correctly.)
Has anyone else encountered this bug? Is there any way to create a new pattern using my fingerprint? Finally, how should I go about reporting this to Samsung?
Thanks.

Yes!
Same thing happened to me... S7 working great for first few days when suddenly it didn't accept my unlock pattern. I've been using the same pattern for awhile and unlocked the phone a few times that morning. After a few reboots it finally accepted my pattern again. Immediately disabled it and now using pin instead.

stevecr25 said:
Yes!
Same thing happened to me... S7 working great for first few days when suddenly it didn't accept my unlock pattern. I've been using the same pattern for awhile and unlocked the phone a few times that morning. After a few reboots it finally accepted my pattern again. Immediately disabled it and now using pin instead.
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Did you just restart again and again until it worked? If it worked for you I might try it instead of the factory reset.

I've had lock screen issues with my LG V10, but not quite like yours. I use a pattern, not a password or fingerprint. Sometimes the screen is locked and I fail the pattern and the phone gets unlocked anyway. Usually, this is associated with having first touched a notification with the screen locked. What happens after the pattern fails (trace shows in red), is that the screen appears as it does when it's not locked and I just swipe and I'm in the application whose notification I touched. The LG V10 has a fingerprint reader on the power button, but I haven't programmed it since I heard it's not that great. This is a major security issue in my opinion, and I haven't read any other posts anywhere about it. So I don't know if it's specific to LG, the V10 or Marshmallow (it started with Marshmallow).
I can start a new thread if you believe our lock screen problems are unrelated (enough). Just let me know.
Bruce

Same thing happened to me. I'm THE ONLY one to ever use my phone and I went to open it and it was saying my pattern was invalid. I was able to use the thumb print pattern still though. However when I went to change the pattern in my settings I entered what used to be my pattern and it locked me out of my phone for an hour. I don't know how to change it.

bluefire2128 said:
Same thing happened to me. I'm THE ONLY one to ever use my phone and I went to open it and it was saying my pattern was invalid. I was able to use the thumb print pattern still though. However when I went to change the pattern in my settings I entered what used to be my pattern and it locked me out of my phone for an hour. I don't know how to change it.
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Saw you had the same issue, so wanted to let you know. I restarted the phone and the old pattern started working again. Another person with this issue said that they had to restart several times, but it did work. So I'd give that a try, worked for me. Good luck!

It just happed to me. I restarted it and it accepted my pattern. I now have it set with pin instead.

Had the same issue as well! Samsung Galaxy S7, suddenly stopped recognizing my screen unlock pattern. Same solution as well; Restarted my phone and the problem went away.

Is there a way to disable the pattern feature if you are able to navigate the phone? Got locked out of Marshmallow on my MOTO G 3rd gen. phone after a pattern change; I was surprisingly able to just reboot into an unlocked phone. I've turned on adb debug access while I still have the opportunity.

I just had that issue. I was able to unlock with the pin, and reset the pattern and it now works again but it was freaky.

Same happened here. This morning the lock pattern on my S7 edge is forgotten by the phone.. Reboot doesn't help.

have the same problem today. i didn't change my pattern and it happened again. before i was using a PIN and I ended up factory reset and by this time I wouldn't want to do the reset factory settings as the last option.

The pin was also randomly stop working, I have mine set to pin and it did the same thing.

Me too!!!! Wtf!!
Mine has locked as well and I swipe the wrong pattern until it gives me the option to put in the back up pin but when I go to correct the swipe it wont let me in. I have tried everything all of you have suggested except the factory reset, I just can't believe that Samsung hasn't put out a fix for this yet.

Here is how you fix it
Method 1. Use 'Find My Mobile' feature on Samsung Phone
All Samsung devices come with "Find My Mobile" feature. In order to bypass Samsung lock screen pattern, PIN, password and fingerprint, you can just follow the below steps to get it done.
• First of all, set up your Samsung account and log in.
• Click "Lock My Screen" button.
• Enter new PIN in the first field
• Click "Lock" button at the bottom
• Within few minutes, it will change lock screen password to the PIN so that you can unlock your device.
tell me it work ??

Just an update to help out someone who might be going through this. This recently happened to me on my s6 edge.
Like the above comment suggests, go to "Find My Mobile". Once signed in, select the "UNLOCK MY DEVICE" option , (selecting the "Lock My Screen" option does not allow you to change the lock screen type afterwards).
Selecting Unlock my device will immediately unlock the phone and erase any lock screen patterns, fingerprints or pins that you might not remember, thus allowing you to set them up again!
Hope this helps!!
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Also, one more thing. Doing the above ^ seemed to have solved a problem I was having with "Smart Lock" not working. So just as an FYI, going through that process might help you with that.

This just happend to my gf's s4 also she sent a text and then went to reply again a few moments later and her pin was invalid and it locked her out of her phone for 30 seconds, she just had to restart it once and it worked with the old pin again.

brobbeh said:
I just had that issue. I was able to unlock with the pin, and reset the pattern and it now works again but it was freaky.
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same issues here, pattern just stopped working. im positive im using the correct pattern.
i can login with my pin, but i cant reset the pattern as it keeps asking for the current pattern.
how can i reset the pattern or change to pin / fingerprint?
ive restartted 2x and trying a 3rd now....

> Use 'Find My Mobile' feature on Samsung Phone
No this didn't work. It still requires my pattern, and tells me I'm doing it wrong...
It DID let me into the phone, which was nice. But the pattern problem persists...
...Update: I restarted the phone, and it came up and accepted my pattern.

This just happened to me on my phone and my tablet. I wound up having to do a factory reset on both! Way to go Samsung. These are the last Samsung devices I'll ever buy.

Disney Killed My S8+

It was hot. I don't think the phone was necessarily feeling the heat like me... but... the way it was acting... maybe so?
The second to last day of my vacation at Walt Disney World (first time!), my S8+ started acting wonky. I tried to take pictures and the application wouldn't work right.
So, I rebooted.
Now, I'm staring at a screen with a textbox at the bottom of the screen and some text near it (I don't recall it verbatim) "Enter your emergency password".
What? What's an emergency password? Typing in the textbox, it was obvious that it wasn't a numeric-only textbox (for PINs) but it was alpha-numeric. I simply don't recall registering anything but a pin and my fingerprints.
Freaking out, I kept trying to restart and worked with the power and volume buttons.
All I continued to see was the Samsung logo.
Suddenly, I got a black screen with text telling me things were being erased. I then see a blue screen with an android bot telling me stuff was being erased.
After a bit, I was back at the language selection.
Gone. Pictures. Data. SSD... entire phone... fully erased. (Thankfully, a majority of my pictures were immediately put into Instagram... the lost pictures I used the phone's camera app because it works better than the Instagram camera).
Don't have my laptop... so I don't have my password database, so I cannot get into ANY applications.
I know there are requirements for Microsoft Exchange, and other applications that require special security for being a device administrator... I'm not aware of Exchange requiring a password for the phone but... who knows? I didn't enter the password wrong too many times.... even as hot as it was I still used my print to unlock the phone.

Man, that is horrible. My condolences. If you can boot the phone into recovery mode (Hold down volume up, then the Bixby button & then the power button...all at once). Once in recovery, do a factory reset and you shouldn't have to enter that 'Emergency Password'. Unfortunately, everything is lost unless you ran a backup into the cloud or on your 'puter.
Sorry for the post if you've already reset the phone as it sounds like you might have since you mentioned the language screen.

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Man, that is horrible. My condolences. If you can boot the phone into recovery mode (Hold down volume up, then the Bixby button & then the power button...all at once). Once in recovery, do a factory reset and you shouldn't have to enter that 'Emergency Password'. Unfortunately, everything is lost unless you ran a backup into the cloud or on your 'puter.
Sorry for the post if you've already reset the phone as it sounds like you might have since you mentioned the language screen.
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Yeah I didn't have the choice -- the phone decided to reset to a fresh install point. Once I got back home I restored to a previous backup after trying everything I could to undelete stuff on my SDCARD.... but none of the software I tried would work... kudos Samsung... your deletion of my SDCARD was VERY complete...

Did you have the SDCard stand alone or merged with the internal storage? I'm surprised that got wiped also.

Chris Dickerson said:
It was hot. I don't think the phone was necessarily feeling the heat like me... but... the way it was acting... maybe so?
The second to last day of my vacation at Walt Disney World (first time!), my S8+ started acting wonky. I tried to take pictures and the application wouldn't work right.
So, I rebooted.
Now, I'm staring at a screen with a textbox at the bottom of the screen and some text near it (I don't recall it verbatim) "Enter your emergency password".
What? What's an emergency password? Typing in the textbox, it was obvious that it wasn't a numeric-only textbox (for PINs) but it was alpha-numeric. I simply don't recall registering anything but a pin and my fingerprints.
Freaking out, I kept trying to restart and worked with the power and volume buttons.
All I continued to see was the Samsung logo.
Suddenly, I got a black screen with text telling me things were being erased. I then see a blue screen with an android bot telling me stuff was being erased.
After a bit, I was back at the language selection.
Gone. Pictures. Data. SSD... entire phone... fully erased. (Thankfully, a majority of my pictures were immediately put into Instagram... the lost pictures I used the phone's camera app because it works better than the Instagram camera).
Don't have my laptop... so I don't have my password database, so I cannot get into ANY applications.
I know there are requirements for Microsoft Exchange, and other applications that require special security for being a device administrator... I'm not aware of Exchange requiring a password for the phone but... who knows? I didn't enter the password wrong too many times.... even as hot as it was I still used my print to unlock the phone.
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The only reason I see for this to happen is if on the "lock Screen and Security", inside the "Secure Lock Settings" have enabled the "Auto factory reset".

Biometrics won't trigger a device wipe, they will only force the pin/password field on too many attempts.
You say Exchange. Is this a corporate account? Is there a possibility that someone remotely wiped your device? Log into OWA (the web interface of your Exchange), navigate to Options -> See All Options, then click the Phone tab and see if a wipe was sent to it. Because what you described sounds a lot like a remote wipe. (Though I've never seen the emergency password field.)
Also make sure that you're not violating your corporate policies. Granting admin access to the Exchange app gives your company full control over your device. They can see you accessing your email with it, and if you're doing something that you shouldn't be, they will wipe your device.

mcnascimento said:
The only reason I see for this to happen is if on the "lock Screen and Security", inside the "Secure Lock Settings" have enabled the "Auto factory reset".
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No way of knowing but I don't recall ever setting that (I wouldn't).

something corrupted your ROM it sounds like, somehow!
if it was the red box that says like "enter password" I believe it is actually "default_password"

I need help with this Alcatel Jitterbug smart phone

Hi Experts, I have a question about this Alcatel Jitterbug A622LJBS1 smart phone (This is the model that specifies the back part) and the battery says Alcatel One Touch. This phone belongs to the company greatcall and this has a modified android.
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The problem I have with this phone, is that I do not have the original chip or sim card of the company, and this asks me for an activation as shown in the image:
My questions are: Is there an original ROM of this device? or if I can put the Rom of another model? or how can I solve the activation of the phone?
From already thank you very much!

I WAS GIVEN ONE OF THESE A WEEK AGO.
It is more simple than you would believe. At first I thought it would need a rom too. Or maybe I could root and bypass somehow.....
Nope,, I put in a non working Verizon Sim Card and when you get to the activAvation screen where it asked for a email or gmail account SLOW DOWN AND READ THE SCREEN...
You can simply skip adding an account..... then the phone booted right up for me and i set it up as i pleased.
Um, If im missing something, well, I did to a factory reset,then a hard reset..... I BELIEVE HAVING THE SIM CARD WAS ALL IT NEEDED.
Now I have full access, have turned on Developer Mode, it also has the OEM unlock feature, so im assuming this TRAC PHONE is going to have a built in recovery..... The only trac phone I messed with before is still in a box and will never recover from the brick i DROPPED ON IT.

sloWmotion01 said:
I WAS GIVEN ONE OF THESE A WEEK AGO.
It is more simple than you would believe. At first I thought it would need a rom too. Or maybe I could root and bypass somehow.....
Nope,, I put in a non working Verizon Sim Card and when you get to the activAvation screen where it asked for a email or gmail account SLOW DOWN AND READ THE SCREEN...
You can simply skip adding an account..... then the phone booted right up for me and i set it up as i pleased.
Um, If im missing something, well, I did to a factory reset,then a hard reset..... I BELIEVE HAVING THE SIM CARD WAS ALL IT NEEDED.
Now I have full access, have turned on Developer Mode, it also has the OEM unlock feature, so im assuming this TRAC PHONE is going to have a built in recovery..... The only trac phone I messed with before is still in a box and will never recover from the brick i DROPPED ON IT.
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Thanks for your comment, the friend problem is that I do not live in the United States, my dad gave me this phone so I do not have access to any of the companies in that country, so I asked if you could change the ROM to jump the Activation step.

Try a Hard Reset, not a factory reset..... Hold the power button and vol button Up button until the phone reboots.... if it takes you to the recovery then wipe it from there and also wipe the cache. then reboot with any cdma sim card and see what that does for you.... I also now have the active dialer codes of the phone... My favorite APP for any phone is MIXPLORER. It lets me disect the apk's and thats where all codes are hidden with exception of the unlock codes of course. I still havnt figured that out.
If that doesnt work for you then I will let you know that the phone is the same, AND (SHOULD )be compatible with alcatel one-touch pixie 3. However, My first attempts at unlocking the bootloader have failed, if its locked... suppose i should check that.....
I will be putting CM12 or Lineage Os On this phone soon..... or Ill brick it trying......
Good Luck to you.
If no sim cards work for you then order a Verizon sim on the internet.... or I could send you the one I have...

Same problem plsssssss how can I get your simcard

i have a jitterbug smart 2 off ebay and it takes forever on the setup screen after factory reset and then i wait like twenty minute and this sceen pops up and says setup failure please contact customer support and refer error code 2, that was the first error code, i tried again and got the second code which was error code 5 after i switched the sim card, third time and still nothing but the long finishing setup screen and setup failure, please help

Try this!
I can tell you a temp fix. I am here now on smart2 jitterbug.
Force reboot. When phone is starting , it takes it a moment to kick into finish setup mode. Quickly drop down notifications, go into settings, choose apps, choose show system apps, quickly empty cache and disable setup wizard. There are 2 different ones. One it into let you disable, but you can first stop, and clear cache. You may have to make a few attempts. I'm assuming your on wifi, so walk as far as possible without disconnecting but enough to lag your connection is helpful, in the effort. Also I disabled the permissions the apps had also alter system and perform on top of other apps. I just did this. There is a way to disable other apps I know. I haven't had an opportunity to do this yet.

Bitcrumbs said:
I can tell you a temp fix. I am here now on smart2 jitterbug.
Force reboot. When phone is starting , it takes it a moment to kick into finish setup mode. Quickly drop down notifications, go into settings, choose apps, choose show system apps, quickly empty cache and disable setup wizard. There are 2 different ones. One it into let you disable, but you can first stop, and clear cache. You may have to make a few attempts. I'm assuming your on wifi, so walk as far as possible without disconnecting but enough to lag your connection is helpful, in the effort. Also I disabled the permissions the apps had also alter system and perform on top of other apps. I just did this. There is a way to disable other apps I know. I haven't had an opportunity to do this yet.
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This seemed to work for a moment for me. I disabled both setup wizards and I was finally able to use the phone for an extra 2 minutes or so but then the phone just rebooted on it's on. When it came back up, the same "Finishing setup" crap started after about 20 seconds. I checked the Setup Wizards and they were both still disabled, so how can the "Finishing Setup" still be running?
Update: actually the 2nd setup wizard app can't be disabled. I tried to force stop it but it doesn't seem to stop. Any suggestions?

My battery went dead and when I booted back up I had to wrestle with it again. On the wizard that doesn't let you disable it, did you clear the cache? Where it says storage, you go there and clear cache and data. My gboard started error looping me, I force close and temp disabled then cleared cache and data and re-enabled. This fixed it. Now this is only a temp solution to use the jitterbug. And stop the setup loop. I have a lot of experience bypassing for locked phones, and I knew this technique from a bypass. I will experiment more, and look for a permanent solution. I have never rooted a phone before and this seems like a good specimen.
The technique I was speaking of involved disabling Google play services, play store, and device manager, also. Re installing a new device manager and play service. It let you get through and add an account to the phone, without forcing you to add the account, you lost access too...

First in the world solution for fully bypass the setup
Follow this one by one
1 - put a sim card with a pin code and boot the phone
2 after boot you will get a swipe screen lock ( or press power button to turn of and on the screen )
3 - go down and press emergency call two times
3 - put pin code and phone dialer will open
4 - put this code *#*#4636#*#*
5 - testing tab will show go to usage stastics
6 - use back button from the testing tab not the phone back button
7 - settings tab will show up go to wifi and connect to internet
8 - go security and make a screen lock from setting + enable unknow sources installation
9 - turn off the screen and on with power button
10 - screen lock will show up press two time on camera and put screen lock
11 - take a picture + swipe the camera to go to captured picture
12 - press on share button and go to email not GMAIL ... log to outlook email
13 - no need to send the pic ... use back button on touch to back to email main front ( not back button on phone )
14 - download shortcuts maker apk from another phone or pc
15 - use another outlook accout to send apk app to the phone email
16 - after receive apk install it + open
17 - find setup wizard you will see to two apps
18 - press the second one and swip down to the last one
19 - press try and finish the setup
20- launcher will activate
21 - DONE
( if you got the frp ... after you connect to wifi ... a lot of methods to bypass it )

hello am having alcatel A622GL and i want to unlock it but when i insert sim card it give sim hot plug and is CDMA not having GSM

lakhssas said:
First in the world solution for fully bypass the setup
Follow this one by one
1 - put a sim card with a pin code and boot the phone
2 after boot you will get a swipe screen lock ( or press power button to turn of and on the screen )
3 - go down and press emergency call two times
3 - put pin code and phone dialer will open
4 - put this code *#*#4636#*#*
5 - testing tab will show go to usage stastics
6 - use back button from the testing tab not the phone back button
7 - settings tab will show up go to wifi and connect to internet
8 - go security and make a screen lock from setting + enable unknow sources installation
9 - turn off the screen and on with power button
10 - screen lock will show up press two time on camera and put screen lock
11 - take a picture + swipe the camera to go to captured picture
12 - press on share button and go to email not GMAIL ... log to outlook email
13 - no need to send the pic ... use back button on touch to back to email main front ( not back button on phone )
14 - download shortcuts maker apk from another phone or pc
15 - use another outlook accout to send apk app to the phone email
16 - after receive apk install it + open
17 - find setup wizard you will see to two apps
18 - press the second one and swip down to the last one
19 - press try and finish the setup
20- launcher will activate
21 - DONE
( if you got the frp ... after you connect to wifi ... a lot of methods to bypass it )
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code *#*#4636#*#* not working

I know I'm late to this party, but I picked up the Jitterbug Smart2 and kept getting stuck at the "Finishing Setup" part; I left the original SIM card in that came with the phone, tried my Verizon SIM, and after a couple minutes it'd go back to that "Finishing setup" crap. This is what I did to get around/stop that annoyance:
Boot the phone, as soon as you do enable 'Developer options' (by navigating to System->About>then tapping "Build number" 5 times. If you're lucky, you can go back to the Dev options and enable "USB Debugging" (if not, reboot the phone then immediately go to Developer Options->Enable "USB Debugging"
Once USB Debugging is enabled, reboot again...
On the next reboot, I went straight to Apps->click the three dots in the right hand corner and select "Show system apps".
If you can, go down to "Setup Wizard" and disable it - make sure it's the one without an icon, not the on with the wizard hat
It may take you a few times to get there, but once your do, open up a command line with ADB running and connect the phone. It should prompt you to all the connection on the phone, tap "Remember this computer" on the phone, then run the following commands one at a time:
adb shell settings put global setup_wizard_has_run 1
adb shell settings put secure user_setup_complete 1
adb shell settings put global device_provisioned 1
Enjoy! I am still trying to figure out how to unlock the bootloader, as every attempt to reboot to fastboot/bootloader just straight reboots the phone.

Enable bootup password

Hey, I just got my 3a and I'm a bit surprised that I can't set a bootup password. That means that you have to enter your lockscreen pin/pattern/password for bootup to continue and to be able to decrypt /data. Or am I just not realizing that it's there since you don't get asked if you want to use it and after a restart there is a lockscreen panel, that at least looks like a normal lockscreen and not like the typical black screen with your keyboard to enter the bootup password but could actually be what I'm missing?
And of course we do not have TWRP yet so I can't just boot it and see if it asks me for the password to mount /data

After a reboot your device's data is encrypted until you enter your password. That's why you can't use fingerprint unlock the first time you reboot.

spaceman860 said:
After a reboot your device's data is encrypted until you enter your password. That's why you can't use fingerprint unlock the first time you reboot.
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Ah thanks, so it just looks like the normal lockscreen while still doing the same thing as that black screen with an input field and a keyboard
Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

Android Phone locks immediately after entering correct pattern

Samsung Note 10, SM-970F
Magisk Rooted
Android 10, N970FXXS6DTK8
It's my GF's, and she uses a pattern unlock along with fingerprint. No new apps were installed or settings changed that she recalls.
Began as phone locking immediately after correct pattern was entered, but using fingerprint would unlock correctly.
With this immediate locking, the phone will by itself turn off the screen then turn it back on for two seconds as though the power button was pressed, then turns the screen off again.
When entering incorrect pattern, it says incorrect pattern and does nothing else.
She tried restarting the phone, which disabled the fingerprint unlock feature until the phone is successfully unlocked once.
Phone still locks immediately after entering correct pattern, and now she can't unlock it using fingerprint.
Now unable to unlock phone.
EDIT: If I repeatedly enter the correct pattern, after a random number of tries it will go to the 'starting phone' screen, but then will either restart by itself or sit there until I restart the phone. It really is random, once it took 7 tries, another time 20 tries. The phone doesn't show up on my windows PC as a mounted device during any of this.
USB debugging was not enabled, so I don't believe I can run any ADB commands. She didn't backup her phone and our focus is at least to get the photos off the camera, at which point doing a factory reset would be acceptable.
I've tried:
Entering a lot of bad patterns, trying to get to an option of unlocking with the google account associated with the phone, but the option never comes up.
Removing the phone case, only external item on the phone now is the stock screen protector.
Starting into recovery, clearing cache, repairing apps.
Starting into safe mode.
Booting in and out of root.
Letting the battery discharge completely to do a hard power cycle.
But no luck. The phone still locks immediately after entering the correct pattern. I haven't tried taking the phone's stock screen protector off, but will probably do that in case there is something wrong with the proximity sensor.
This is the international two SIM version of the Note 10, the only Note 10 variant which was rootable. I haven't worked on the phone for at least a year since it was rooted and setup.

SEU or a hardware failure. Either way when this happens your only option is to backdoor in. If it was a SEU after resetting you're good to go. If hardware it will likely reoccur... Even with a hardware failure many times nothing happens if no lock is set, you still have access. Setting a lock password introduces added failure modes.
SEU's are very rare but they do happen, randomly and just one bit of data is flipped. Interesting they cause no hardware damage. Higher altitudes elevate the risk as does exposure to man made high energy particles. That's one reason why spacecraft have 3 or more redundant computers. Apollo fights have logged half dozen or more SEU's per flight.
I never screen lock my N10+'s, double tap on/off. This is one reason why. Same with PC bios, no password is ever set. Once bitten, twice shy as the user is always the most likely person to get locked out... as I learned the hard way

@blackhawk, I hear you on getting burned with device security. And for any electronic device, secured or not, backups and redundancy are the only reliable difference between your device being useful and useless. It's been hard not to say any 'I told you so' about this, since I was telling her both to use a pin instead of pattern and to let me setup a regular backup. I don't know that a pin would have been different, but I think it would have since the fingerprint was working before the restart.
Do you have any resources you could point me to on how to backdoor into an android with a password/encryption? I know you can unlock a device using ADB, but I believe you need USB debugging enabled first and I don't know how to make that happen without first unlocking the phone.

mc_squirrel said:
@blackhawk, I hear you on getting burned with device security. And for any electronic device, secured or not, backups and redundancy are the only reliable difference between your device being useful and useless. It's been hard not to say any 'I told you so' about this, since I was telling her both to use a pin instead of pattern and to let me setup a regular backup. I don't know that a pin would have been different, but I think it would have since the fingerprint was working before the restart.
Do you have any resources you could point me to on how to backdoor into an android with a password/encryption? I know you can unlock a device using ADB, but I believe you need USB debugging enabled first and I don't know how to make that happen without first unlocking the phone.
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Samsung repair can do it. A local shop or yourself, maybe. If there's an associated Samsung or Google account, start there. I never had to do that but the information isn't hard to find. The data will likely be lost though.
Meh, it's a very rude surprise.