My father in law recent had a cardiac arrest and is now in a coma. I was given his phone by the police and as expected it's got a lock screen requesting a PIN code. Multiple missed pin entries do not bring up a reset with his google account. I'd strongly prefer not to do a hard reset as to avoid deleting any important or sentimental data. I've done a bunch of reading to see how to unlock the phone that involve CWM amongst other methods but the phone is neither rooted nor has USB debugging enabled which seems to make all the methods I've found unhelpful. The phone also does not have data nor Wifi enabled which makes things worse.
Can anyone point me to a method that would not require USB debugging to be turned on? If the data is permanently locked, is there a way to at least back it up?
Thanks in advance for any help
hyue76 said:
My father in law recent had a cardiac arrest and is now in a coma. I was given his phone by the police and as expected it's got a lock screen requesting a PIN code. Multiple missed pin entries do not bring up a reset with his google account. I'd strongly prefer not to do a hard reset as to avoid deleting any important or sentimental data. I've done a bunch of reading to see how to unlock the phone that involve CWM amongst other methods but the phone is neither rooted nor has USB debugging enabled which seems to make all the methods I've found unhelpful. The phone also does not have data nor Wifi enabled which makes things worse.
Can anyone point me to a method that would not require USB debugging to be turned on? If the data is permanently locked, is there a way to at least back it up?
Thanks in advance for any help
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I think the best bet be to take your phone to a samsung service centre and explain to them what happened.Maybe they have some trick up their sleeve.
A friend of mine bought a Galaxy S6, and has used it for a few months now. He has it locked with the finger print scanner. I'm sure this topic has been covered here before. The scanner no longer recognizes his finger print, and his back up password doesn't seem to work for some reason. Both Verizon and Samsung say all he can do is a factory reset. Samsungs findmymbobile was not setup on his phone. Googles ADM is useless all of a sudden. It tells you that since the phone is locked, there's no need to lock it to the specified password. He's fine with doing a factory reset, however, he has a ton of photos (he never setup cloud storage either) of his kids he is desperate to save. He's asking for my help. I told him I'd take a look, but it's pretty tough to do much of anything when I can't enable USB debugging.
A couple questions;
When I boot into odin on the phone, there's an option to enable USB debugging. Does this actually do anything? It seemed to reboot the phone and just bring me to the password screen again.
Is there any way I can root the phone and remove the password, while maintaining the pictures on the phones internal storage?
Is there anything else that has made its way into the scene for dealing with this bug? I've done a bit of research, and it seems it's happened to quite a few people.
Apparently when you don't use the pattern lock, it does not give you the option to unlock your screen with your google account credentials. Google has been no help in this matter.
If this has already been answered in the past, I apologize.
Thanks for the help.
Hi!, I have a RAZR D3 (XT919). It ships with Android 4.1.2, but I upgraded it to 4.4.2. A few days ago, I dropped it, and the screen shattered, the screen itself it's not broken, I mean, it displays what it needs to, but half of the screen lost the "touch" capabilities, meaning that I can't input my unlock pattern. I've tried everything in order to be able to unlock it (do not ask why I need it to be unlocked, I just NEED it unlocked), I tried through ADB, but, USB debugging is not enabeld (it actually IS enabled, but I can't confirm the debugging access to my pc because it does not show up the window that asks for confirmation, and, even if it did, I would not be able to tap it not because of the broken screen, because I think the touch part that is still working is in range, but because it would not let me tap it in the unlock screen), I tried through flashing a zip file (actually, lot's of them) that in theory disabled the pattern... yet, no luck (I'm aware that I may needed to input a random pattern, it didn't worked), I tried a file manager made for recovery mode, didn't worked either. So, in short terms, I tried tons of things to unlock the damn phone (factory reset is not an option) and nothing works. I just don't know what to do, I will be buying a new one, of course, but I need it unlocked right now. Oh, I also tried with a USB-OTG cable with either the pc keyboard and mouse, the device simply does not support it. So... yeah, I'm pretty much screwed. Don't be afraid to post any complicated solution, just keep in mind, to make it as clear as possible, thanks for caring and I hope somebody would be able to help me!
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Hi!, I have a RAZR D3 (XT919). It ships with Android 4.1.2, but I upgraded it to 4.4.2. A few days ago, I dropped it, and the screen shattered, the screen itself it's not broken, I mean, it displays what it needs to, but half of the screen lost the "touch" capabilities, meaning that I can't input my unlock pattern. I've tried everything in order to be able to unlock it (do not ask why I need it to be unlocked, I just NEED it unlocked), I tried through ADB, but, USB debugging is not enabeld (it actually IS enabled, but I can't confirm the debugging access to my pc because it does not show up the window that asks for confirmation, and, even if it did, I would not be able to tap it not because of the broken screen, because I think the touch part that is still working is in range, but because it would not let me tap it in the unlock screen), I tried through flashing a zip file (actually, lot's of them) that in theory disabled the pattern... yet, no luck (I'm aware that I may needed to input a random pattern, it didn't worked), I tried a file manager made for recovery mode, didn't worked either. So, in short terms, I tried tons of things to unlock the damn phone (factory reset is not an option) and nothing works. I just don't know what to do, I will be buying a new one, of course, but I need it unlocked right now. Oh, I also tried with a USB-OTG cable with either the pc keyboard and mouse, the device simply does not support it. So... yeah, I'm pretty much screwed. Don't be afraid to post any complicated solution, just keep in mind, to make it as clear as possible, thanks for caring and I hope somebody would be able to help me!
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Good Morning/Afternoon everyone.
Before i start, i want to point that i've tried a lot of stuff before being hopeless & turning to this forum.
I have a SM-J700H. yesterday i wanted to change my phones lock screen password, so of course i did so, the problem is, i think i made it wrong, i missclicked somewhere or i don't know, twice, & now my phone is locked. i dont know what to do nor how to deal with that. sadly the Usb Debugging is i think turned off ? i'm not sure. Adb doesn't seem to find it. i tried the google location stuff, it's turned by default on this phone. i don't know what to do, i don't want to hard-reset , as i have important data, photos, etc.
If anyone's could help. thanks
Try to check on youtube .... e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTng4mtWQ8
Hello all,
Even though it is my first post, I'm an old member...
I know people is alwas asking for that answer but I need to ask it before having to reset my phone.
I've never used the pattern way of locking my phone and rather used instead password but I decided to use a pattern to lock my phone and now that I've forgotten it, I'm stuck...
My phone is on stock Rom, locked bootloader and USB debugging mode activated.
Is there any way to bypass that security and to use my phone again WITHOUT wiping anything (I'm on travel and I completely depend on my saved datas, that's why I'm looking for any way to do that) or am I just wasting my time ???
I know a lot of people will tell me that it's not possible but I'm still hoping that one will tell me it is and will give me the way to do that...
Thank you all...