I am the owner of the phone. Have been using it for almost 6 month. I have my face, fingerprint and passcode set on the phone.
last week I got into a big fight with my girlfriend and just don't want her to get into my phone again. So i changed the passcode from the one we both know to a new one..... Since she know all my passcode, I changed it to one that I don't use often...Now I can't remember it...
I have all my google account on the phone and I know all my previous passcode .I also have my fingerprint and face registered.. I already talked to google. They asked me to reset my pixel. I don't want to. There is one chating app ( wechat) that has all my history with my family( parent, sister and newphew) and their photos. I don't want to lose that.....
Please someone help me find a way to bypass the passcode, or let me use the old one... please.
It has been rooted and unlocked bootloader but i have not yet install recovery on it yet
I assume you have rebooted and need to enter a password since it won't accept the fingerprint as the 1st form of authentication? Any chance you have a Titanium backup with data saved offline? You could reset the phone and reinstall apps with data. That should take care of the chatting app.
For that particular app, not yet have titannium backed up offline.... I guess I am screwed.
I think that with Google "find my device" (search it from your browser) you can remotely change the password/pin.
I never did that, but I know that there is an option, you can always give it a try
I tested the find my device thing once. It definitely does ask for your password that is currently on your account.
I tried this option. But since I already had a passcode there, it won't ask for a new code that I just set up...
"If you already have a screen lock, it will be used instead of the password you just set up."
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I'm kinda in a daze from losing my Nexus S last night. The hangover is probably contributing to said daze. I don't have one of those security apps installed. I must have forgotten to restore it when I flashed a new ROM. My inner child is on my inner floor bawling his eyes out at the moment.
Anyway, my question is, what can I do to ensure minimal loss of my privacy. I have already changed all my passwords. Does this automatically unsync my account on the phone? I mean, will the phone ask whoever has it to re-enter the new password? What else am I forgetting? What else can I do?
Would appreciate it if "You should have"s are avoided. Thanks!
I know for sure that if you have changed your Google/Gmail Password, that the phone will prompt for a new one. As far as 'unsyncing' I do not know. I didn't check to see if my contacts/emails/calendar etc were removed when I changed the password and the phone prompted for a new one.
I will change my password again, see what happens and let you know.
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I changed my password for my phone, I got a notification about a sign in error, that prompted for a password. The dialing functions still worked as normal, any emails that you had cached were also visibile as well as the calendar. I rebooted without updating the password and could still call out as normal, but when I tried to access the Gmail app, it tried to sync the inbox, but prompted for a password right away.
I don't have any apps installed with other sensitive information, but I would imagine those would function as normal.
Hope this helps.
You could try lookout mobile security "plan b" will help find it.
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Hmm sorry to hear that dude, i would probably be bawling on the floor too!
Although... i probably will install one of those security apps now...
Thanks for your help, guys.
Even if you don't change password but someone change sim card,android will require reenter password for sync
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I don't know if Plan B would work seeing as how his Google Account is tied to the market account. Because he changed his password and the phone lost connection with the Google account, I don't believe remote installs will work, but I could be wrong.
SphericalPuma said:
I don't know if Plan B would work seeing as how his Google Account is tied to the market account. Because he changed his password and the phone lost connection with the Google account, I don't believe remote installs will work, but I could be wrong.
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Yes, I was wondering the same thing. I picked up a new Nexus S(not SAMOLED unfortunately) and synced it up and everything. Finally got to a PC and looked up my Market Account. It listed both phones under devices and I could go all the way to installing it on both phones. It located my current phone.
Unfortunately, I blocked my SIM card prematurely(did not know about Plan B), so, I can't send out the locate SMS. But, I figure whoever has it has probably removed the SIM card, or does not know how to charge it if the battery is dead or is using a SIM on it without a data connection. So, no data connection means no app on the phone. I haven't received an email from Plan B for the lost phone.
Why is the phone is still linked to my market account? I can see that the carrier has been changed which means a new SIM.
For now I'm just satisfying myself by installing inane and useless apps on the phone. HAHA! I hope it works and the app installation is going through. I've pretty much lost hope of finding it.
So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/13/dont-change-your-google-password-before-factory-resetting-your-android-phone-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
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So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ne-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
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Well, wait for 72 hours and see
thefayeride said:
So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/13/dont-change-your-google-password-before-factory-resetting-your-android-phone-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
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sorry, i cant help with your question, but in the future, remove your account from the phone before factory reset and you wont have this problem.
any phone running lollipop and forward will have this new security on it, and if your phone never had software older than lollipop on it, there is no way to bypass the security check.
Have you run into this before and if so how do you fix it?
My kid accidentally triggered his security feature on his new S7 to wipe his phone with too many incorrect entries.
Once he got the phone rebooted he attempted to enter is google account and password. Here in-lies the rub...
He forgot his google password and changed it from the desktop. This should not be an issue. However the S7 would not accept the new google password and wants the original password. The phone is completely locked out.
After making calls (on a different phone) to Samsung, we had it sent in. Samsung cannot even get past this and are now sending him a new phone.
We do not want to go through this ever again as it is very much PITA.
Besides keeping a log of his account passwords in a secret location, how does he get past this in the future?
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He forgot his google password and changed it from the desktop.
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Don't you need the know the old password before you can change it to a new one?
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I just sold my S7 and beforehand I used the Settings menu to reset the phone. It also asked for the Samsung password too for some reason. I checked after the boot that the phone restarted in factory setup mode and it did, so I powered it off and shipped it.
Now the buyer has said that they see this msg on start up:
"an unauthorised attempt has been made to reset your device to factory default settings, connect to Wi Fi or mobile network to verify your identity"
Why is this?
They are saying that they have been advised that "the phone is locked" and so want to return it.
Why did the FRP get triggered? Is there any way out of this?
Obvs I really don't want to give the buyer my google userid (presuming this will allow them to to set it up) as even if I changed my password afterwards they could potentially do all sorts of stuff before I can change the password again ... Besides giving your login out just a no no in anyone's book.
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I checked after the boot that the phone restarted in factory setup mode and it did, so I powered it off and shipped it.
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Did you check if everything was actually properly erased by going through the setup wizard again and seeing if it complained about an unauthorized reset, or did you just see the setup screen and thought everything was good? It also seems you didn't remove any accounts prior to the reset.
You should've removed all accounts, and disabled any screen lock methods on the device before even going into the reset menu on the Settings app. If you leave your accounts on your device, especially your Google and Samsung accts, both FRP and Reactivation Lock will assume that an unauthorized reset was made and as such it will store said accounts during setup in order to verify that it's *you* who reset the phone.
It may be possible for the buyer to bypass FRP and effectively remove your Google account from the phone, but if Samsung's Reactivation Lock was enabled and you still hadn't tripped Knox, then you're pretty much out of luck on doing that in any way. Removing the Reactivation Lock is incredibly hard if not impossible on some devices, so don't count on much if the feature is active.
If nothing is possible, the only choice you have is to talk to the buyer to see if he will temporarily send the phone back so that you can unlock the thing properly, then ship it again. But I doubt anyone would like to go through more hoops and expenses to get their used phone working and would rather just return it and get a refund.
Thanks for the info.
After the reset and restart I just saw the setup screen and thought everything was fine. All I knew from memory was that doing a reset via the Recovery boot menu would trigger the protection, but I had no idea that one had to actually remove the screen lock and accounts before doing a reset via Settings! I'm pretty sure that the Settings-Reset page even says it will remove all data & accounts etc. and I know it said nothing at all about removing lockscreen & accounts beforehand!
Even the specific page at https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00083965/ makes no mention of that step - how are folks expected to know this stuff?
Grrr, this is why I'm so frustrated at how such a seemingly simple operation is so screwed up - no wonder folks love iphones [ducks] ....
The buyer is non-technical but I've persuaded them to give me a go at talking them through entering my google userid over the phone - and then straight afterwards I'll change the google password and remove the device from google account. Failing that it's refund time and writing off all the postage.
Well we tried. But, for some reason during my account sign-in, it was asking for a mobile phone number too which I wasn't expecting, and then after that it wouldn't accept my password. The guy was 86 though and so there might have been something else amiss that he didn't spot. So I'll have to try and fix it when it comes back... Oh and it turns out that changing your google account password nukes all your app passwords without any warning, so that's another PITA to update everywhere that uses those.
The buyer actually dropped by during a road trip, so I could login myself. It turned out that it was the S7's Samsung keyboard that was at fault since it refused to type in actual characters correctly. I had to disable the Samsung keyboard setting for Predictive Text. Also it insisted on automatically changing the case of letters until I'd long pressed the shift key to fix the case.
Only after doing these things was it possible to enter email address and password correctly. I then removed my google account, did a settings reset, and finally the phone reset correctly.
Getting desperate here. My friend wanted to do a factory reset because she was running out of space, and everything was lagging. I told her no problem, just make sure to have your correct Google credentials. I don't use Google (Custom ROM FOSS guy) so have very little experience with possible issues.
So we went into the settings and wanted to initiate the factory reset process. She was asked to enter her PIN, which he had forgotten. She always uses fingerprint to access her device. Therefore I went into recovery and did the wipe from there. Everything seemed normal. We were greeted with the welcome screen, entered the Wi-Fi key, then it checked for updates for a moment. After that it asked for a "previous password". Before doing the factory reset, we double-checked her Google credentials to make sure nothing goes wrong. I was a little irritated that it wouldn't ask for her Google Account Email address first. Alas, after several attempts, it just wouldn't accept her Google password. We entered her account on a browser, no problem there.
I did some research, and there have been several people with the same or similar problems. Some report that they need to enter a PIN after factory reset. Seems like HTC is asking for a different password, and not the one for the Google account. Unfortunately she does not remember to have ever created a password for the device.
What really bugs me is that even the official HTC support page for the U11 does not mention this obstacle:
What can I do if I forgot my screen lock password, PIN, or pattern?
www.htc.com
I successfully bypassed FRP on a Samsung Galaxy J5 several years ago, and tried the same with the following tutorial:
Everything goes well, until the YouTube app opens and asks me to update. When I tap on update, it wants me to sign in to Google Play. When I tap on sign-in, it immediately asks for this ominous 'previous password' again.
Hope you guys have a solution. Data is all backed up, but she really needs this phone.
UPDATE: She remembered the password. She said she had to set it up together with the fingerprint when she got the device.
Still, I find it extremely misleading that HTC does not follow its own guidelines. The official support page for this model linked above explicitly states that in order to remove any PIN, pattern or password, you can wipe the device.