Hello,
i have phone Sony XA F3111. It have locking pattern. This phone belonged to the dead man who died at the fall from ladder, on phone was broken LCD and phone started format SD card. From SD card i recovered only old photos, half of card was cleared. His family would be able to get information, especially photos, contacts, and SMS stored in it. Mobile has a pattern protection and no one knows what pattern it has. Now there are about 20 attempts before the phone reset. How can this protection be removed? Alternatively, where i can send it to unlock the phone and get access to the data. Mobile is not routed or USB debug enabled, locked bootloader. I will pay 200eur for data from it. Aplication like Dr.Fone dont support this model.
Thanks for any help.
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Hi, a family member passed away a few months ago and I was given her phone by her sister to use if I wanted. She had the phone and charger, and thats it. I stay in the UK and the phone I use is on O2. The phone she had was the Experian L but she had her phone through a contract with virgin media.
When I initally put my sim card in and turned the phone on it said 'virgin media, this phone has been reported lost/stolen'. In order to unclock it from this security lock I needed her insurance company(through virgin) to provide me with a 4 digit pin to unlock the phone. This was very hard to get as the insurance people are different from virgin media, but after a while they agreed to give me the code if I sent a copy of her death certificate in. I did this and got the code thankfully. I was told that I wouldnt be able to use my o2 simc ard in the phone because the handset was locked on Virgin. I was told if I paid £15 I would receive the unlocking code through the post in a week or so.
I did this and got a letter through the door with the instruction on for to unlock the handset. Basically its a 16digit number that I enter and the phone become unlocked. However, after all this Ive just realised I think there is a phone lock on the phone i.e. a pin she must have set herself? I think this because when I power the phone up without a sim, all I can see is the date/time, with her name underneath, and also underneath that is a keypad. When you press any button on the keypad and hit enter it says wrong pin? That happens without a sim card so I presume it is a phone pin lock she had on her phone is that correct? If so, is there any way around this? Ideally I would like to keep whatever pictures etc are on the phone however I realise that might not be possible. Ive tried to download the sony suite however it wont allow me to use the suite because it tells me on the computer I must enter the pin on the phone to continue! bit of a nightmare to be honest.
Any help/suggestions with what I can do? Many thanks
I cant unlock through Pc Companion because Pc Companion needs the screen to be unlocked before it connects the device, and I cant do that.
factory reset
Hello, do a factory reset to the Phone, but you will loose all the information on it
Hello. My mother has recently found her old Samsung Galaxy S7 and doesn't remember the pin. She has some very important photos (Baby Pictures, ETC) on the phone and needs to get them somehow. She has never turned on any development options or USB Debugging. I don't really know what else to post here because this is my first post. I was told by a friend that this forum could help
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Hello. My mother has recently found her old Samsung Galaxy S7 and doesn't remember the pin. She has some very important photos (Baby Pictures, ETC) on the phone and needs to get them somehow. She has never turned on any development options or USB Debugging. I don't really know what else to post here because this is my first post. I was told by a friend that this forum could help
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The only way to unlock without wiping data is to use Android Device Manager but you have to know the Google account and password the phone was using.
You can use Google DM on a pc to do this. Your phone must be charged and turned on with an active SIM.
If this does not work, a Samsung repair centre can unlock the device if you have proof of purchase.There is no way to unlock AND save your data if both the methods are not available to you.
You can as a last resort reset the device to use again but all data will be lost.
Also things to check first.
1. Often pictures are stored on the SD card in the phone, remove the card put it into an sd adapter or another phone and see if the pictures are stored there in the DCIM folder
2. Pin numbers are often dates of birthdays or bank card pin numbers etc ask your mum if this is the case it might jog her memory.
Hi, My wife dropped her P30 and now the screen is broken. She has a new phone as the contract was up anyway, but I would like to try and get acess to the device somehow to retrieve some data. The screen is just black - no interaction at all. There is a passcode on the phone as well which was unlocked via fingerprint or code.
Is there any software that will allow me to mirror the phone and access it? All the software I've tried so far wants you to install an app on the device itself which is obviously impossible.
Any ideas?
Thanks
replace the screen, is about the only option.
a phone repair center may be able to recover the data with a spare screen if they have one available to boot into the phone, obviously passcode etc will be needed to access the data. even hisuite will need the phone to be unlocked before any backup is possible.
Hi guys.
Helping a friend out here and since i've not been using a Samsung since my Note 4 era, i've kinda lost my knowledge regarding Samsung programs.
So she has forgot the PIN lock and the phone are now locked (well it still aks for the Pin lock). The last resort is to just wipe the damn phone, but as we all know, not everyone use the cloud so all the pictures are stored at the internal memory.
Any ideas if this is possible without USB debug beeing enabled?
If she can access using her Samsung or Google account maybe... not sure.
I never set passwords for device or bios access because you are the most likely to get locked out. Maybe through no fault of your own like if the password goes corrupted. It happens.
She will lose all data if she can't gain password access because the device's data is encrypted.
In the future she needs to redundantly backup critical data to at least two hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. Some lessons you learn the hard way... been there, done that
Background:
A person I know, dropped his phone (Android Oreo or above) into the water while at a beach. He tried keeping the phone in a bag of rice etc., but he can't get it to work. It won't even start. Samsung support said he'd need to replace the motherboard. He does not want the phone working again, but he wants the vacation photos from the phone. In Bangalore, there are some data recovery services that say they can recover the data for him (one of them mentioned some Spider technology).
Primary question:
Is the data recovery team's claim that they can recover the photos, actually legitimate? Can the photos be recovered from the phone in such a situation? How would they do it? Since the data on the phone would be encrypted (a password was needed to unlock the phone), would the data recovery team use a motherboard from a similar phone, connect it to the data storage and ask him to type his password to be able to access the data? If instead they removed the NAND storage and connected it to another board, wouldn't it be impossible to access the data without typing the phone's unlock password to decrypt it?
Concerns:
They might be bluffing, and this could just be a way to get paid for the "effort" that they put in to try recovering the data even if they can't eventually do it.
The data recovery team could clone the data and use brute-force techniques to gain access to any other data.
They could misuse any payment information stored on the phone.
They may view WhatsApp chats or other WhatsApp data stored (he says his WhatsApp is protected by fingerprint recognition).
if privacy is the main concern here, do it through samsung, through the official means. whats more important, the price of a motherboard or their privacy ?