SM-G930V Verizon model. Is there an option hidden somewhere which you can select weather to shutdown device from locked screen or not? There is such option in AOSP ROM I have on my other device, but I was never unrooted long enough to find these options in stock ROM and now am not sure if it is an AOSP only option.
My concern is that if the phone is lost, anyone who finds it could factory reset it before I get the chance to search for it. But I have a chance to find it if it can't be turned off/rebooted when the screen is locked.
I don't believe there is such an option. But while someone who finds your phone can shut it off, they can't easily do a factory reset.
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The phone is encrypted. Settings > Lock screen and security > Secure startup, use a PIN. I believe this will prevent button combination on boot. Haven't tried.
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As the title says, I was making a tasker profile to give my camera button permission to lock and unlock the device. I also allowed the Secure Settings plugin to be installed into the system. Now, when I boot the phone, the display stays on for a very short amount of time. Ive tried to QUICKLY get to tasker right away to turn off the profile, but I never have quite enough time before the screen goes black. Then, pressing the unlock button only flashes the screen for a second, the camera button does nothing. USB debugging should still be enabled, thankfully. It's a Sony Xperia z1s. How can I get to tasker and secure settings to remove both and start over?
Edit: Have enough time to boot into safe mode, but then it continuously says " unfortunately, initialbootsetup has stopped"
I cant factory reset, I dont have a nandroid. Please help and tell me I havent completely screwed my phone.
Flash stock sony os. It should fix it.
CoDe LaZaRuS said:
Flash stock sony os. It should fix it.
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Thank you, nothing else was working. It's all good now
Happy to help
Hey guys!
Interesting problem I've been working on, my friend's sister has a tablet (did some research, 99% sure it's the Ubox A13-MID) that has a pattern lock. She forgot the pattern, and also doesn't know what the main gmail attached to it is. I've attempted several unlock patterns, no 'forgot password?' prompt comes up. The tablet also doesn't appear to have a fastboot or recovery menu... pressing power+vol up, power+vol down, and power+vol up+down doesn't do anything, no matter how long I hold the buttons, no matter if I let the power button go after a couple seconds, nothing happens. She's not tech savvy, so I know USB debugging isn't enabled. The tablet has an SD slot, and I'm not certain if it supports OTG. But even with these considered as possible ways of restoring the tablet (by any means possible, including root), I don't see any way of doing anything with them without any system menus.
By the way, I hope this isn't a violation to ask this (any kid could come on here and ask how to unlock a stolen device, lol), so please forgive me if it is. If it would be of any aid, I have two rooted androids of my own, both support OTG. Just throwing that out there in case either of them may be able to aid in unlocking this crapplet.
Safe mode doesn't help, and launching the 'power off/airplane mode/sound' window DOES reveal the back button, home button, and screenshot button along the bottom of the device's screen, as well as the option to increase/decrease volume (I was hoping there would be the tiny chance of a settings icon there to bypass the screen). Been swiping up to see if I could launch something to bypass it, as a bug. I can take screenshots this way, but that seems to be all.
I was able to bug out the tablet by dragging the clock to the trashcan, the 3 dot icon came up on the bar but when I clicked it, the tablet just powered off
When it came back on, the clock was back, and the same cycle occurred when I did it again.
Is this a lost cause?
Hi there,
Try one of this method:
[Guide] How to Unlock & ByPass a Pattern Lock on Android Device Without Loosing Data
[Video] How To Bypass Pattern Lock On An A Tecno phone
Lock Screen security bypass - Unlock PIN/PASSWORD/PATTERN of Lockscren without wipe.
For other questions please ask directly in this thread: [HELP THREAD] Ask ANY Question. Noob Friendly.
Good luck
So a customer brought a Note 7 from Verizon to me with demanding Google Account in order to continue setup. After the usual searches and clicks from forums to forums I was unable to solve the problem. I even booted the phone into download mode and tried to reset using Z3X Box (I choose SM-N920A) but still nothing. So, in disappointment, as I held down both Power and Volume Down buttons in order to reboot phone, something happened. I came across a menu I am kind of vaguely familiar with - the Maintenance Boot Menu.
Not only interesting is the fact that it has useful options like Safe Mode and Factory Reset, but the most interesting factor was the last option, option number 5
USB Debug Mode: Turn on USB debugging option under Developer Options.
I used the Volume buttons to navigate up and down and the Home Button to choose option 5 and the phone rebooted. I re-plugged the phone back to computer, waited for ADB drivers to install, fired up Samsung ToolPRO once more and choose SM-N920V (again!). I navigated to the Unlock tab and clicked Reset FRP. I said okay to the questions asked and waited for it to load. I still clicked OK despite the warning about wrong model number and just like that factory reset was done (By Samsung ToolPRO of course). I checked by phone and nothing happened!! What the- I took a deep breath and clicked Reset FRP, again. And just like that, the setup screen vanished. I went into menu and did a factory reset of the phone and now all is good. Cool huh?
NB: I know not everybody has Z3X Box for servicing phones but the essential is that ADB can be activated and that counts for something right?
Yep. Where's a good place to get it?
OK, so most of us already know about "Google device manager" feature or Samsung's "Find my Phone", you can lock your phone, erase all the data, locate it if it's online.
But in all this cases your phone can be still hard reseted (vol button + home button + power button, any of this combinations) and be used again.
What am i asking is, if you got your phone lost or stolen, can you lock completely your android phone, so any bad guy who find it and doesn't want to return it, can not use your phone at all (hard reset feature disabled), so the only think the thief has left is to throw the phone away or to sell it for pennies for it's battery, screen and so on.
P.S. This feature is already included in all iphones
This feature is not on iphones, a simple bootstrap and DFU mode can still initiate a wipe
Also if a thief still wants, they just have to JTAG the device and wipe it that way.
Reactivation lock is a better alternative
Hi all,
Just wondering if you Android pro's can tell me whether the G930F (Australian) can boot into maintenance mode?
My girlfriend bought one new on the way to the airport for her dream holiday in the USA mainly for the camera, then promptly forgot the swipe pass for the secure startup when she arrived home. USB debug is off, so I'm looking to get it back on. Got no problems with the FRP, she knows all the details for that, but it's just that the phone won't power on and connect to the network so we can do an account recovery. Or, at least get to a point where we can pull the photos off and then just do a hard reset.
If it's a no go on maintenance boot, would flashing the stock ROM back on get us past the swipe and at least to a point where we can actually recover the account from Google?
Just to be clear - the phone boots past the Samsung logo and then stays in "To start up your device, draw your pattern." and the option to go to an emergency call. We cant call the phone at this point, it just goes straight to voicemail.
Thanks heaps!
The 930F is the international model, Australia has no specific firmware or hardware differences so shouldn't have any reason not to be able to.
It sounds like you have the set to have the pattern required to start the device as opposed to just unlock it, and I'm not sure how early it kicks in preventing boot modes.
If I recall correct boot to recovery is vol up + home + power, boot to maintenance is vol up + power, and boot to download is vol down + home + power
Couldn't tell you if recovery or maintenance will let you pull data.
A factory reset within recovery might get past the pattern lock, but will wipe your photos.
A stock firmware flash in Odin should do it if recovery doesn't work, but also will wipe your photos.
Ah, I see. I appear to be able to get into Recovery and Download boots, but not maintenance. I'd seen that once you get into maintenance, you can turn on USB debugging from there, and I'd be all sorted. Hmmm.
That's a pity about the stock ROM flash, I thought that might be my best bet after maintenance boot.
Maintenance might be a snapdragon thing, googling it I can only see people doing it on the US model.
Oh right. Could I do anything like in this article -
Google "Physical Imaging Of A Samsung Galaxy S7 Smartphone Running Android 7.0" (sorry, I can't post outside links yet!)
- down to step 4? Is there an appropriate boot image available for the G930F?
Thanks heaps for the help so far!
Should be, every ROM zip I've seen has one in them. Not sure where you could get a stand alone stock one.
Ok, cool. Would the one found in this thread -
"ENGBOOT for S7 and S7 Edge (Qualcomm/Exynos) (Untested) (Still Seems Legit)"
- on these forums be ok? There's a file in the download labelled G930F_XXE1APBG_ENGROOT.tar (after extracting the .7z) that appears to be standalone. Is that what I'm after?
For reference, in Recovery boot, it tells me that the current PDA is G930FXXS1DQF6, and from that I can find that the CSC is G930FXSA1DQEF.
So she can't remember the pattern to unlock it? Or does it not boot properly despite entering the correct pattern? The S7 comes encrypted by default and the pattern is the key. No data is actually usable at the point it displays the pattern screen with the black background(because it can't actually access the wallpaper yet). If you can't get the pattern right all data currently on the device apart from the external SD(unless it's encrypted too) is lost It's a security feature, the only other way is a factory reset.
Yeah, black background is where we're at, and yeah, can't remember the pattern. So there's no way to get past that at all? Not even flashing the boot image?
Hmmm. Is there any way to reset the amount of attempts? We can at least keep trying different patterns that way.
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Yeah, black background is where we're at, and yeah, can't remember the pattern. So there's no way to get past that at all? Not even flashing the boot image?
Hmmm. Is there any way to reset the amount of attempts? We can at least keep trying different patterns that way.
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NOTE: This is based on what I know. If anybody else has any ideas please don't hesitate to share!
Does it let you enter a backup password? She might have some ideas there?
Your best bet would maybe be a firmware reflash, but that's a very slim chance. So try that first(Remember to use HOME_CSC!). You can try flashing the boot image but beware, if the phone is full stock then the encryption system has some self-defence mechanisms that can permanently lock the data if unauthorized firmware is detected(or anything else suspicious like resetting the attempts). It technically *shouldn't* disable secure startup though; Remember, the whole point of encryption is to make it physically impossible to access data without the key, so it wouldn't be doing its job if you could just disable it at will. Samsung is also pretty anal about security these days.
Edit: Does she have a Samsung account? It might have backed the photos up already.