Locked out of encrypted phone - General Questions and Answers

So, I changed my password today on my encrypted Note 4 running 6.0.1. Not rooted, everything is stock. After restarting I was able to log in the first time, but now I can't. I've tried so many times that it says I only have 4 more attempts left before the phone is wiped.
What can I do? With enough tries I will get it. I think I made a typo originally.

disla said:
So, I changed my password today on my encrypted Note 4 running 6.0.1. Not rooted, everything is stock. After restarting I was able to log in the first time, but now I can't. I've tried so many times that it says I only have 4 more attempts left before the phone is wiped.
What can I do? With enough tries I will get it. I think I made a typo originally.
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Boot to stock recovery, then factory reset, it will wipe everything, the password included, but its about your only option without root.
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[Q] Encryption password not working can't get in

I set an encryption password 3 weeks ago and have been using it ever since. Today, I decided to root my device using chainfire's CF-root method through odin. Everything went fine, but after the reboot, it kept saying my password was incorrect. I tried 10x but no luck. I booted into CWM and did a factory reset but following reboot, I'm back to the encryption password request. I tried again and I exceeded the limit and it wiped all my user data. I still can't get passed the encryption request, the tablet just reboots and asks me to try again. Can anyone help? I can't get into my tablet and there is no option that I know of to reset the password. Please help. thank you.
rekil goth said:
I set an encryption password 3 weeks ago and have been using it ever since. Today, I decided to root my device using chainfire's CF-root method through odin. Everything went fine, but after the reboot, it kept saying my password was incorrect. I tried 10x but no luck. I booted into CWM and did a factory reset but following reboot, I'm back to the encryption password request. I tried again and I exceeded the limit and it wiped all my user data. I still can't get passed the encryption request, the tablet just reboots and asks me to try again. Can anyone help? I can't get into my tablet and there is no option that I know of to reset the password. Please help. thank you.
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Not really funny but I just did this on my wifes note 10 minutes ago. You find a solution yet. I'm digging away for a solution.:crying:
Update: Went into recovery and did a factory reset. Everything seems fine. Of course I did lose my wifes data.
I accepted my defeat. I flashed stock recovery and booted into it. From there I did a factory/Dalvik/cache wipe and rebooted. Once it rebooted, I was back to a brand new tablet. I lost everything.
rekil goth said:
I accepted my defeat. I flashed stock recovery and booted into it. From there I did a factory/Dalvik/cache wipe and rebooted. Once it rebooted, I was back to a brand new tablet. I lost everything.
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Could have been worse I guess.
Yep, could've kept asking for password after the stock flash.... Now that would be a bummer...
rekil goth said:
I set an encryption password 3 weeks ago and have been using it ever since. Today, I decided to root my device using chainfire's CF-root method through odin. Everything went fine, but after the reboot, it kept saying my password was incorrect. I tried 10x but no luck. I booted into CWM and did a factory reset but following reboot, I'm back to the encryption password request. I tried again and I exceeded the limit and it wiped all my user data. I still can't get passed the encryption request, the tablet just reboots and asks me to try again. Can anyone help? I can't get into my tablet and there is no option that I know of to reset the password. Please help. thank you.
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Another data point, totally stock Note just tried to encrypt it (lost the encryption after the upgrade to 4.1) and seemed to do its thing fine but wont accept my password which I KNOW is correct. Frak! Going to have to wipe it I guess, pissed to say the least. Wonder if the recent update (don't even know what it was for but it was small) created a problem?
Did you guys managed to find a way to fix this without factory reset.
Try this password: un!ockm3!

Phone encrypted!!!

I was messing around with CM and I went into twrp to restore a backup and now my phone is locked. Can anyone point me where to go with this?
If you encrypted your device they only solution to decrypt is to factory reset.
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You need to search around here. This is a documented issue with aosp ROMs. Someone put out a command line fix (i think it's in the noon-carrier-specific m8 forum) or you can use the ruu files found in this forum.
electric turd said:
I was messing around with CM and I went into twrp to restore a backup and now my phone is locked. Can anyone point me where to go with this?
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i just sent in my phone after this same issue i had tried the newest nightly from CM and flashed fine ran through the whole set up process then found out my bluetooth dont work so i restored my most recent bak booted my phone up and i get a message to put in my password that i have never set up
electric turd said:
I was messing around with CM and I went into twrp to restore a backup and now my phone is locked. Can anyone point me where to go with this?
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I have had this twice now, i fixed it by formatting data in twrp then factory resetting and restoring a backup from my sd. I lost all my internal storage.
factory reset dont work either sorry were both S.O.L. unless u have insurance then just "loose ur phone"
I'm back guys!!!!! I ruu'ed in fastboot. Weird thing was when my phone booted back up it still had supersu!!!!!! That made me happy. I then flashed twrp through flashify and restored a back up I made before this whole fiasco. Thanks again for everything!!!!
So you returned your phone to Verizon over this? If it turns on you can fix it.
electric turd said:
I'm back guys!!!!! I ruu'ed in fastboot. Weird thing was when my phone booted back up it still had supersu!!!!!! That made me happy. I then flashed twrp through flashify and restored a back up I made before this whole fiasco. Thanks again for everything!!!!
So you returned your phone to Verizon over this? If it turns on you can fix it.
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mine turns off right after it boots dosent matter where it boots to
skcitzo said:
i just sent in my phone after this same issue i had tried the newest nightly from CM and flashed fine ran through the whole set up process then found out my bluetooth dont work so i restored my most recent bak booted my phone up and i get a message to put in my password that i have never set up
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So you sent in a phone that you broke and that can be fixed but are too lazy to research? And this is why companies lock down bootloaders. If you cant do basic searching, then dont root your phone.

Phone restting every reboot - can't even unlock

Out of the blue my Nexus 5 totally flipped out. It only recognizes 215MB of 16GB internal storage, the rest is missing. It's also not getting service. Also, every time I reboot the phone, it goes back to totally factory stock. So I tried unlocking it, successfully, but then on reboot it was locked again. Need to unlock and install custom recovery so I can flash a new ROM, but I can't because of the reset thing. Any ideas?
Rma the device. It sounds like your emmc flash memory is bad. You have the symptoms
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Log please. Perhaps you messed up with partitions just like me yesterday
GR0S said:
Log please. Perhaps you messed up with partitions just like me yesterday
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What logs? There's basically no storage on the device, and when I plug it into my computer, it sees the phone but it's totally empty. I did nothing to any partitions. This is my wife's phone, and she's been using it bone stock since she got it a few months ago. She wouldn't let me do anything to it, no rooting, no unlocking, and she doesn't do anything to it herself except use basic apps. It just started doing this on its own. I think we'll RMA it.
RemeCA said:
What logs? There's basically no storage on the device, and when I plug it into my computer, it sees the phone but it's totally empty. I did nothing to any partitions. This is my wife's phone, and she's been using it bone stock since she got it a few months ago. She wouldn't let me do anything to it, no rooting, no unlocking, and she doesn't do anything to it herself except use basic apps. It just started doing this on its own. I think we'll RMA it.
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go RMA then. Just thought you messed up like me yesterday (no radio, no modem).

Updating to 5.1.1 made phone stuck in boot animation

Hi.
Yesterday I got a notification to update to 5.1.1. ( My nexus 5 was on 5.1, everything stock, never flashed anything before )
I selected 'install' for 5.1.1, and left my phone aside. After a few minutes I saw that it was in the boot animation. I thought it was the process ongoing. Several hours later I decided to restart the phone manually ( obviously something went wrong ).
After rebooting, again, it's stuck there. On the four colored dots swirling around.
I searched on forums, I got the 5.1.1 stock, got ADB, fastboot etc, flashed as the instructions said ( via ./flash-all.sh and via the long version by manually flashing every partition ) EVERY time the same thing, when I boot it's just showing the boot animation forever.
Any idea on what's wrong?
blackjim said:
Hi.
Yesterday I got a notification to update to 5.1.1. ( My nexus 5 was on 5.1, everything stock, never flashed anything before )
I selected 'install' for 5.1.1, and left my phone aside. After a few minutes I saw that it was in the boot animation. I thought it was the process ongoing. Several hours later I decided to restart the phone manually ( obviously something went wrong ).
After rebooting, again, it's stuck there. On the four colored dots swirling around.
I searched on forums, I got the 5.1.1 stock, got ADB, fastboot etc, flashed as the instructions said ( via ./flash-all.sh and via the long version by manually flashing every partition ) EVERY time the same thing, when I boot it's just showing the boot animation forever.
Any idea on what's wrong?
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I would wipe data.
Sandman-007 said:
I would wipe data.
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Tried 'Wipe data/factory reset' a couple of times.
Also tried 'Wipe cache partition' later.
No difference at all. It stays for hours on the booting animation.
Can I somehow see the logs or something to see where it's stuck?
I believe you must flash factory images at this point. Just make sure you backup SD Card data or flash each partition manually skipping the userdata.img (this one erases internal storage)
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Sandman-007 said:
I believe you must flash factory images at this point. Just make sure you backup SD Card data or flash each partition manually skipping the userdata.img (this one erases internal storage)
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Well I did that, I tried 5.1, 5.1.1 and the M image.
None of them works.
At this point I'm tired of doing the whole process every time and waiting for 15 mins to see if it worked.
Thankfully, I called google support and they will send me a replacement.
I'm just very curious how this whole mess happened from a simple OTA update.
blackjim said:
Well I did that, I tried 5.1, 5.1.1 and the M image.
None of them works.
At this point I'm tired of doing the whole process every time and waiting for 15 mins to see if it worked.
Thankfully, I called google support and they will send me a replacement.
I'm just very curious how this whole mess happened from a simple OTA update.
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If a complete wipe of the phone with factory images didn't fix it sounds like hardware. Possible corrupt NAND I think.
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Sandman-007 said:
If a complete wipe of the phone with factory images didn't fix it sounds like hardware. Possible corrupt NAND I think.
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Possibly.
In any case, they already sent me a replacement phone.
Google support has been extremely satisfying.

Can the repair shop steal my personal data from a phone stuck at Samsung logo?

My phone (Note 3) was stuck at Samsung logo so I couldn't remove or backup my data first.
Can he use any software to backup my data & steal them from recovery or download modes?
I never changed USB debugging settings. And didn't root my phone either.
I removed the SD card first, it was empty.
So can data be stolen from internal memory by ADB or something?
Sorry I'm really not experienced in this..
The guy took 1 hour to flash the rom twice as he said and it failed. It keeps stuck at Samsung logo again.
I only could get a glimpse of android upgrading screen after 20 minutes or so..but I don't know if he used anything to steal my data before flashing the phone.
After it failed i took the phone, tried flashing it with different roms by odin and it fails too after the android upgrading process. I had to factory reset and it worked after losing everything of course.
Only I'm worried about stealing my data as professionalism & conscience aren't the favorite things in my country unfortunately
Waiting for your help
Thanks a lot!
He can steal anything photos call logs messages anything if he wqntes. And by the conditions he flashed a rom for a different varient or a moded one.
Another possibility occurs that he fooled you by backing up your old firmware and then flashed it.
And yes he can steal anything.
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Atifbaig786 said:
He can steal anything photos call logs messages anything if he wqntes. And by the conditions he flashed a rom for a different varient or a moded one.
Another possibility occurs that he fooled you by backing up your old firmware and then flashed it.
And yes he can steal anything.
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No, they flashed official, it only bootlooped because of old conflicting data from the previous installation, that's why doing a factory reset made it work without bootlooping, factory reset removed the conflicting data and allow the device to boot properly.
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JerryDavid said:
My phone (Note 3) was stuck at Samsung logo so I couldn't remove or backup my data first.
Can he use any software to backup my data & steal them from recovery or download modes?
I never changed USB debugging settings. And didn't root my phone either.
I removed the SD card first, it was empty.
So can data be stolen from internal memory by ADB or something?
Sorry I'm really not experienced in this..
The guy took 1 hour to flash the rom twice as he said and it failed. It keeps stuck at Samsung logo again.
I only could get a glimpse of android upgrading screen after 20 minutes or so..but I don't know if he used anything to steal my data before flashing the phone.
After it failed i took the phone, tried flashing it with different roms by odin and it fails too after the android upgrading process. I had to factory reset and it worked after losing everything of course.
Only I'm worried about stealing my data as professionalism & conscience aren't the favorite things in my country unfortunately
Waiting for your help
Thanks a lot!
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If all you had was stock recovery and download mode then no, he couldn't steal your personal data.
ADB doesn't work with stock recovery on Samsung and it doesn't work with download mode. Your data should be safe.
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You didn't had a Custom Recovery?Sorry I Didn't took that in account.You are absolutely right adb Don't work on Stock.
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