Thanks in advance for any advice,
Similar to others recently, I've gotten the "Samsung keyboard keeps stopping" message. I restarted my phone, thinking it would help. However, when you restart, you can't unlock your phone with a fingerprint, it has to be through entering your password. My keyboard won't pop up though, so I'm 100% locked out of my phone. I've tried everything from restarting, powering down, restarting in safe mode. The only thing I haven't done is a factory restart, because I have precious photos of my infant daughter on there that I cannot lose. I've taken it to stores, and have tried connecting it to my Mac, but to no avail, I've found no way to bypass my lock screen. I'm just looking to either unlock it, or get my photos off so I can do a factory reboot. Help!
You could download the app for say Google Keyboard and install it with adb
adb install keyboard.apk
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I recently tried to root my phone but i became aware that the new OS on this phone wont allow root so i ended up with a soft brick phone. i undid it and now this is what im stuck with, i have no idea what to do and i cant even sign into to my google account to access the phone. When i click on the green android to get started it just pops back up and i press force close and it just repeats from there. PLEASE HELP ME!! Oh yeah ive also tried to factory reset the phone by pressing volume up and down but i just get all these green dots on my screen (galaxy looking) so i take out the battery but i need to fix this asap!
So here's the gist. My s4 has been rooted for a while and very recently while removing some apps and bloatware I decided to remove the "Help" app since it seemed useless. I think I messed my phone up by doing that because by then my s4 would randomly give me the black screen of death or get stuck in a boot loop. To fix these problems I would take out the battery and hold the power button for a minute, or clear cache from the boot loader menu or reboot in safe mode which would inexplicably fix my phone normally for some reason. But all these options only temporarily fixed my phone and it would just continue with the same problems (Boot loop, black screen of death, etc).
I eventually resorted to factory resetting my phone, all though not the conventional way At first I tried decrypting my s4 but my stupid usb cord stopped being recognized by my pc and that screwed up the decryption so my phone factory resetted itself on it's own pretty much. Now I'm having trouble getting to the boot loading screen but I can get to the download/odin screen.
I looked up online and different guides told me the last resort is to do something called an emergency firmware recovery. I looked up on youtube what to do, tried using Kies but Kies said it doesn't support the s4. I then tried using Smart Switch but when I get to the screen where it tells me to enter my serial number, I enter it and it tells me that I'm entering the wrong serial number, even though I triple checked what it is! I google searched if other people were having this problem with smart switch and other people are having similar problems as I am. I'm running out of ideas on how to save my phone. I don't think it's a hardware problem because I haven't dropped my phone very recently. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do next?
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So here's the gist. My s4 has been rooted for a while and very recently while removing some apps and bloatware I decided to remove the "Help" app since it seemed useless. I think I messed my phone up by doing that because by then my s4 would randomly give me the black screen of death or get stuck in a boot loop. To fix these problems I would take out the battery and hold the power button for a minute, or clear cache from the boot loader menu or reboot in safe mode which would inexplicably fix my phone normally for some reason. But all these options only temporarily fixed my phone and it would just continue with the same problems (Boot loop, black screen of death, etc).
I eventually resorted to factory resetting my phone, all though not the conventional way At first I tried decrypting my s4 but my stupid usb cord stopped being recognized by my pc and that screwed up the decryption so my phone factory resetted itself on it's own pretty much. Now I'm having trouble getting to the boot loading screen but I can get to the download/odin screen.
I looked up online and different guides told me the last resort is to do something called an emergency firmware recovery. I looked up on youtube what to do, tried using Kies but Kies said it doesn't support the s4. I then tried using Smart Switch but when I get to the screen where it tells me to enter my serial number, I enter it and it tells me that I'm entering the wrong serial number, even though I triple checked what it is! I google searched if other people were having this problem with smart switch and other people are having similar problems as I am. I'm running out of ideas on how to save my phone. I don't think it's a hardware problem because I haven't dropped my phone very recently. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do next?
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Hi,
Kindly register yourself at XDA post which you can query in http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help
Experts there may be able to help you
Out of the blue, my touchscreen has stopped responding. Tried rebooting many times, always asks for the PIN after the reset, which I can't input since the screen isn't working. I've tried booting into Safe Mode and still no touch response, and rebooting from recovery mode didn't make a difference. I really don't want to hard reset my phone, but I can't find any other ideas anywhere online. Any help? Everything is stock, craziest thing I do is use Nova Launcher.
Edit 2 :
After third time re-install my conclusion is it happens when adding extra languages.
So the Superlocale was the trigger but not the cause as it happened without having either of the 2 mentioned apps installed.
The only "special" thing i did was using adb to get rid of some pre-installed stuff like Google Youtube, Keep, Films etc (some more than i did in the past. Wonder if that could be causing the "stuck on flashing unlock screen"?
Edit : allready managed to enter Oppo recovery and resetted my phone.
BTW it wasn't the Insular app but SuperLocale to quickly switch languages. After granting the special permission the same thing happened again and i had to do another reset again .... ouch.
I've been playing around with the Insular app yesterday (which creates a sandbox envorinment by means of the Android work profile) and this morning I found the phone flashing at the unlock screen.
Guess the app really messed up. But even worse is;
- I cannot unlock the phone
- I cannot power down the phone
- I cannot enter recovery
I can use the Power + Vol+ combo but it just restarts the phone leaving it flashing at the unlock screen without any means to unlock
Meaning I cannot factory reset the phone....
What else is there I can try to get my phone back?
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Hi guys! I’m hoping to get some help to save my sisters galaxy note 10 (we need to get her photos from the phone)
Few days ago her phone forced an automatic update something went wrong in the proces and it got stuck in a reboot loop.
After researching online I saw the odin method tried it and was able to flash the firmware for the phone, thought all was done. But now its stuck In This lockpad loop. I slide the screen, put in the pin and it wants to let me in but goes to black screen and the lockscreen comes up again, endlessly. If you put the wrong pin it tells u it’s wrong, put In the right pin and it starts the loop again.
At this point ive spent so much time trying to fix and I’m close to giving up. I would really like to at least save her photos (sentimental memories) but I have no way of accessing even with the correct pin, I even tried safe mode and it gives me the same lockscreen loop.
I also tried to unlock it via samsungs find my phone but it says no network cant unlock it.
Please can anyone suggest any fix? Is there a other way to get in and save her photos?
Thank you!