My phone was working perfectly when I took the stylus out I could take notes. Now I have to unlock the phone and go to the Motorola app. I am not sure what changed because I did not do anything to the phone to affect it.
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So say that I find a tablet, with not so much as a scratch on it, it the middle of the road, functioning perfectly. I take the tablet home and find a pattern lock staring at my face. What on Earth am I supposed to do? Most people would just CWM, wipe and keep it for themselves. I, however, want to give the tablet back to its owner, but it has no means of identification at all, and I don't want to get locked out permantently. Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800799
Ok so my phone's screen is perfect, the display is not broken or scratched or anything like it. But in a vertical line on the right side of the screen almost at the end, it doesn't respond, the phone its perfectly fine but on that vertical line of the screen it does not get any of my touch input. I have the show touches feature from the developers options enabled so I can see exactly where the phone screen doesn't work.
The thing is now I can't enter my security pattern to unlock my phone, and before sending it to get fixed (and I know its probably gonna need a new screen) I wanto to backup my files and photos saved on the device but since I cant enter the pattern on the screen the phone wont let me access it via USB.
Anyone know how I can access my phone now? If I do a factory reset it will erase the pattern but also the personal data I want to recover?
Is this a firmware issue? or Hardware issue? Maybe some inside connection for the display got loose or something since my screen is intact without a single dent or scratch.
Any other Ideas on how to backup my stuff from the computer? Maybe there is some program I dont know about.
Cheers in advance.
My wife and I got a couple pixels back on black Friday, they've both been great. My wife switched from Apple so she enjoys pointing out all the things she doesn't like. She recently found one thing I can't explain. This works on both of our phones.
1. Phone locked, screen off
2. Press power button on side of phone. Phone goes to PIN unlock screen.
3. Try (unsuccessfully) to unlock using fingerprint scanner with an indirect finger. Use you pinky or whatever finger isn't loaded in your system yet
4. Message appears saying you've failed too many times, try again later
5. Swipe screen up.
6. Phone unlocks. Without ever entering your PIN!
Can anybody else repeat this? Google support chat is no help. I was told that if a factory reset doesn't solve the problem I would have to send the phones in for replacements.
Maybe you have smart unlock set up?
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Mine doesn't do that. Swipe up after failing fingerprint gets me to PIN.
Smart lock
I have smart lock set to keep my phone unlocked at home, in my wife's car and when I have a set of ear buds connected. Neither of those three were near or connected when I tested this thoroughly last night at dinner and this morning at work
Mine doesn't do that. I have smart lock for my blue tooth devices.
My pixel does not do this,I get asked for my pin
Nope, I can't recreate this without smart lock being on. What happens if you just press the power button and then swipe up?
If you do your test in your home, it's normal to stay unlocked since you are in SAFE UNLOCK in your house.
Hello.
My wife dropped her Z3 earlier today for the second time in as many months! But midway through getting the screen replaced, I decided to buy her a new phone. As the repair shop had already started the job, her phone is now pretty much unusable, no display or touch function.. I've managed to reassemble it enough to get the battery light on to see that it is charging, and I can feel vibrations on the button press, and my PC detects the phone. It was totally stock, not modded at all. It had a pattern swipe lock on it.
My question is, can I get her text messages off of the phone?
Is there any way at all to access and retrieve them via USB connection?
Thank you for any help.
Hi all - I'm still trying to find a response to this. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I have tried to fit a new display but the new display was not responsive and did not illuminate too. If I can get this to work I can release the passcode and access the phone to recover the SMSs, but so far, no luck.
Samsung Note 10, SM-970F
Magisk Rooted
Android 10, N970FXXS6DTK8
It's my GF's, and she uses a pattern unlock along with fingerprint. No new apps were installed or settings changed that she recalls.
Began as phone locking immediately after correct pattern was entered, but using fingerprint would unlock correctly.
With this immediate locking, the phone will by itself turn off the screen then turn it back on for two seconds as though the power button was pressed, then turns the screen off again.
When entering incorrect pattern, it says incorrect pattern and does nothing else.
She tried restarting the phone, which disabled the fingerprint unlock feature until the phone is successfully unlocked once.
Phone still locks immediately after entering correct pattern, and now she can't unlock it using fingerprint.
Now unable to unlock phone.
EDIT: If I repeatedly enter the correct pattern, after a random number of tries it will go to the 'starting phone' screen, but then will either restart by itself or sit there until I restart the phone. It really is random, once it took 7 tries, another time 20 tries. The phone doesn't show up on my windows PC as a mounted device during any of this.
USB debugging was not enabled, so I don't believe I can run any ADB commands. She didn't backup her phone and our focus is at least to get the photos off the camera, at which point doing a factory reset would be acceptable.
I've tried:
Entering a lot of bad patterns, trying to get to an option of unlocking with the google account associated with the phone, but the option never comes up.
Removing the phone case, only external item on the phone now is the stock screen protector.
Starting into recovery, clearing cache, repairing apps.
Starting into safe mode.
Booting in and out of root.
Letting the battery discharge completely to do a hard power cycle.
But no luck. The phone still locks immediately after entering the correct pattern. I haven't tried taking the phone's stock screen protector off, but will probably do that in case there is something wrong with the proximity sensor.
This is the international two SIM version of the Note 10, the only Note 10 variant which was rootable. I haven't worked on the phone for at least a year since it was rooted and setup.
SEU or a hardware failure. Either way when this happens your only option is to backdoor in. If it was a SEU after resetting you're good to go. If hardware it will likely reoccur... Even with a hardware failure many times nothing happens if no lock is set, you still have access. Setting a lock password introduces added failure modes.
SEU's are very rare but they do happen, randomly and just one bit of data is flipped. Interesting they cause no hardware damage. Higher altitudes elevate the risk as does exposure to man made high energy particles. That's one reason why spacecraft have 3 or more redundant computers. Apollo fights have logged half dozen or more SEU's per flight.
I never screen lock my N10+'s, double tap on/off. This is one reason why. Same with PC bios, no password is ever set. Once bitten, twice shy as the user is always the most likely person to get locked out... as I learned the hard way
@blackhawk, I hear you on getting burned with device security. And for any electronic device, secured or not, backups and redundancy are the only reliable difference between your device being useful and useless. It's been hard not to say any 'I told you so' about this, since I was telling her both to use a pin instead of pattern and to let me setup a regular backup. I don't know that a pin would have been different, but I think it would have since the fingerprint was working before the restart.
Do you have any resources you could point me to on how to backdoor into an android with a password/encryption? I know you can unlock a device using ADB, but I believe you need USB debugging enabled first and I don't know how to make that happen without first unlocking the phone.
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@blackhawk, I hear you on getting burned with device security. And for any electronic device, secured or not, backups and redundancy are the only reliable difference between your device being useful and useless. It's been hard not to say any 'I told you so' about this, since I was telling her both to use a pin instead of pattern and to let me setup a regular backup. I don't know that a pin would have been different, but I think it would have since the fingerprint was working before the restart.
Do you have any resources you could point me to on how to backdoor into an android with a password/encryption? I know you can unlock a device using ADB, but I believe you need USB debugging enabled first and I don't know how to make that happen without first unlocking the phone.
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Samsung repair can do it. A local shop or yourself, maybe. If there's an associated Samsung or Google account, start there. I never had to do that but the information isn't hard to find. The data will likely be lost though.
Meh, it's a very rude surprise.