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**Pattern unlock ** FIXED email address only prior to @ sign

Hi guys, my little one was playing with phone and has locked my phone after doing the pattern unlock. Dont know how many times she has done it.
It is now saying unlock using email address.
I have done the following:
If you have forgotten the screen unlock pattern, you have up to five attempts to try and unlock your phone. If this fails, you can unlock your phone by entering your Google Account user name and password.
1. On the unlock screen, attempt to enter your unlock pattern five times.
2. When prompted to wait for 30 seconds, tap OK.
3. If the display goes off, press the POWER button to turn the display back on, and then press the bar on the lock screen and slide your finger down to unlock the screen.
4. Tap the Forgot Pattern button in the lower right corner when it appears.
5. Enter your Google Account name and password, and then tap Sign in.
When i do this it just says invalid username and password, just does not let me go past that screen i can still receive calls which is good for now.
I have tried turning phone off still same thing.
I dont know wat to do now to gain access to my phone. Only had it 2 days.
I have been online to make sure my email address and passwrod are correct and the gmail address is correct. Could it be a different address, as the only other address i use aint working either.
My internet connection is disabled too, am i totally fecked or can someone please advise best way. MANAGED TO GET INTERNET CONNECTED using hold power button still no good.
Thanks and fast reply would help majorly.
Nad

Re: **major screw up help pls**
when you have the login with Google account screen, put your Google mail address in as normally and for the password type "null"
excluding ""
give that a go. it will mean you won't need to reset your phone.

You can hard reset the phone (starts the phone like new - will delete all user prefs and apps contacts etc) and will return it to the state it is in when it's new
Turn the phone off
Hold down VolDown and turn the phone on by pressing the Power Button (keep holding VolDown)
Follow the onscreen instructions to wipe your phone

Ramedge said:
when you have the login with Google account screen, put your Google mail address in as normally and for the password type "null"
excluding ""
give that a go. it will mean you won't need to reset your phone.
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Same thing still nothing,
Trying to avoid hard reset just got it set right. Anything else i can try b4 i go down that route.
Thanks

Right sussed it, how stuuuuuupid is this, its your username excluding the @gmail.com
So for future if anyone else has this problem, please insert address prior to @ sign and ur password, how strange for them to set it like this, all the time i was entering full email address.
DOH thanks fro the rapid responses by the way fellas.
Nad

N4D5 said:
Right sussed it, how stuuuuuupid is this, its your username excluding the @gmail.com
So for future if anyone else has this problem, please insert address prior to @ sign and ur password, how strange for them to set it like this, all the time i was entering full email address.
DOH thanks fro the rapid responses by the way fellas.
Nad
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The only time I know of when you have to use @ in a Google login is if you are using a Google apps account with your own domain, otherwise it is always just your username.

Can't add contacts

Hello. For some reason I can't add contacts anymore. When I press "add contact " is comes up with a blank screen with "save" at the bottom but no form to add the contact. It also does it if I try to add a number from the dialer as a contact. Thanks for your help.
BTW new android user coming from blackberry
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Did you either freeze or uninstall AT&T address book? You need this to add contacts.

yes, that was it. however when I try to restore it, it doesnt seem to be working it just says "restoring app + data" and the status circle just goes around and around. been doing this like 10 mins now.
Any suggestions?

skywalker26 said:
All I had to do to get TiBu working was change the app processing mode to auto, indirect. Then I just disabled the USB debugging warning (it says recent versions of su don't need USB debugging enabled).
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wow this forum doesn't allow post just a quite from another post...it require you type something 10 characters long...ooookkkk....

[Q] How do you disable/remove AT&T Address Book?

Every time I open my address book (or at least the first time after a reboot) I get this AT&T address book verifying subscriber status popup that takes a while to complete. I have no interest in ever using that service so how can I disable the check and just stop using it at all?
I'm guessing that the answer might be root and remove bloatware but I'm hoping there's a way to just turn it off without rooting. Don't worry I'll be rooting sooner than later but for now I'd like to just get rid of that annoying delay.

I havent got my phone yet, should have it within the next 3 hours, but have you looked through the settings, and opened up the AT&T address book app and checked the settings within that app itself?

Yeah. Not seeing any settings for it or actually any AT&T Address Book App at all.

Yeah i finally got mine a few hours ago, but i dont see any options to disable it either.

I'm guessing this will be one of those annoyances that only root can salve.

Not sure about the s3 but on skyrocket I checked out the programs.. scrolled down to sync and disabled..
Rebooted and never got the error again.
... sent via subspace

jumanji404 said:
Not sure about the s3 but on skyrocket I checked out the programs.. scrolled down to sync and disabled..
Rebooted and never got the error again.
... sent via subspace
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Where exactly did you "check out the programs.. scroll down to sync and disable"?
I don't see anything about AT&T address book anywhere.

I have the same issue. Every so often when I go into my phonebook I have to wait for it to check the AT&T Address Book. So now there is a huge lag to access my contacts.
Why do carriers think they should be mobile phone designers? I wish they'd just leave the designing to the people who are good at it.
Over 10 years of buying my own phones out of contract for a reason. I've only had the phone for a few hours. I wonder what other lame surprises await....

Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.

1. system setting
2. app manager
3. click on the phone book
4. force stop
Now it will stop and the icon will be removed from the app list. You can do this for all of the apps that will not uninstall till we get root.

duckfart said:
1. system setting
2. app manager
3. click on the phone book
4. force stop
Now it will stop and the icon will be removed from the app list. You can do this for all of the apps that will not uninstall till we get root.
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In step 3 when you say "the phone book" do you mean the app called Contacts that has an icon that looks like a phone book? When I disable that app my phone dialer icon disappeared making it so I couldn't dial out. Had to re-enable it.
Otherwise, I dont have an app named Phone Book.

kennonk said:
In step 3 when you say "the phone book" do you mean the app called Contacts that has an icon that looks like a phone book? When I disable that app my phone dialer icon disappeared making it so I couldn't dial out. Had to re-enable it.
Otherwise, I dont have an app named Phone Book.
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No.
My AT&T and YP.

I was trying to disable the AT&T Address Book as well. I found out you disable AT&T Messages. Works like a charm.

phoenyx said:
Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.
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I can confirm this method mentioned by Phoenyx worked. For me at least. No more AT&T Addressbook confirmation dialog when I go to Contacts. :good:

phoenyx said:
Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.
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Yes, I just tried this as well instead of what I posted earlier and it also worked. I didn't know there was a phonebook option in my online AT&T account.

Works
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I disabled syncronized snd it got rid of it
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I just turned off the AT&T phonebook as you described and the pop-up goes away. Didn't need to do anything else.
Thanks!

erikk said:
Every time I open my address book (or at least the first time after a reboot) I get this AT&T address book verifying subscriber status popup that takes a while to complete. I have no interest in ever using that service so how can I disable the check and just stop using it at all?
I'm guessing that the answer might be root and remove bloatware but I'm hoping there's a way to just turn it off without rooting. Don't worry I'll be rooting sooner than later but for now I'd like to just get rid of that annoying delay.
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Hi I just got my phone the same thing happened. I let it load (the second time it happened the first time I hit cancel). I got a page that was basically an ad for att's backup service, I scolled down to the bottom and clicked on close (or whatever the button did say). Now when I start contacts no more "checking subscriber status etc".
I have not rebooted yet but will and if it comes back I'll post, if it doesn't then at least on my Galaxy SIII it was a one time event.

Can't change launcher

I returned to stock and downloaded Google Now Launcher but it tells me TouchWiz is the default and I need to go to settings and change it. I can't change the default launcher in settings though because the option is grayed out.
Anyone got any ideas?
Rooted Lollipop 5.0.2 (BOK1)
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You need to clear defaults. If it's greyed out then it's not default.
Just open apps then press the home button then it should give you the choice to select launcher.

ashyx said:
You need to clear defaults. If it's greyed out then it's not default.
Just open apps then press the home button then it should give you the choice to select launcher.
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Settings>Applications>Default applications>Set defaults
Where I should be able to choose my home launcher, I can't. That is greyed out. When I press the home button I didn't get the option to choose a launcher either. I've never had this problem before.
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Never mind. I found the issue. Somehow the Google app got disabled. Turned it back on and all is well.
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noxarcana said:
Settings>Applications>Default applications>Set defaults
Where I should be able to choose my home launcher, I can't. That is greyed out. When I press the home button I didn't get the option to choose a launcher either. I've never had this problem before.
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You need to press clear under Clear Defaults where it says TouchWiz Home.

There wasn't a "clear" option because the device couldn't recognize the other launcher to begin with since I didn't have the required app turned on.
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noxarcana said:
There wasn't a "clear" option because the device couldn't recognize the other launcher to begin with since I didn't have the required app turned on.
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I know. You posted while I was in the midst of posting a reply.

I need some serious help. Called samsung long story short said i had to have device shipped to them so they can flash it. They sent me an email that should have contained a shipping label. Got email quick but never checked contents. Well went to email next day to print label to ship. When i opened email it had a ticket number for me to go have my own label printed at a ups store or equivalent. Fair enough when i got there for some reason i was reading email more thoughly and realized my device # didnt match mine. So went home called samsung again they said they have already sent me a printable label, i read the man the email i described above he said that that email wasnt from them?? Puzzled at this point but had him send another label to a friends email address (which he opened in a different device) there it was a printable label. Puzzed still, called samsung again, as i was speaking to the man i realized its been the same person i have spoke with three different times over a span of a week. What r the odds of that especially when its a company as big as samsung. Im really concerned that if i ship this device out i may never get it back. And another thing i described the problem but he never ever told me a reason that i had to have device flashed, even after i asked him multiple times, somehow he was able to side track me enough with rambling that i never insisted on a reason. The initial reason was my adress bar, would change from a secured green to a circled i with redirect comands grayed out. If some one can explain this or give me any advice or a fix that can be down without shipping would be great.... in English please dont no alot about computers or devices.. i tried simple things like malware downloads and virus removel but they say theres no viruses or anything. Im poor so new device isnt oppsion i guess that was a long story longer rather than short sorry and thankyou for reading

Bypass "factory data protection" help?

tl;dr bought phone with box and everything, had pattern in it, put into recovery wiped it, now it's a brick.
So I bought a HTC One M9 from someone off of craigslist for $350. It was dead when I bought it, but I got pics of it with it on and functioning. It came with the box, charger and everything. So it had a pattern lock on it so I just put it into recovery mode and wiped it. Now it needs the original account to activate it. I've got a hold of the original person and they gave me the password and email but they reset the password so I think I have to wait 72 hours which is Tuesday night hopefully. But what if it doesn't work? Can I bypass it?

skater95 said:
tl;dr bought phone with box and everything, had pattern in it, put into recovery wiped it, now it's a brick.
So I bought a HTC One M9 from someone off of craigslist for $350. It was dead when I bought it, but I got pics of it with it on and functioning. It came with the box, charger and everything. So it had a pattern lock on it so I just put it into recovery mode and wiped it. Now it needs the original account to activate it. I've got a hold of the original person and they gave me the password and email but they reset the password so I think I have to wait 72 hours which is Tuesday night hopefully. But what if it doesn't work? Can I bypass it?
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This works on Samsung, can try it out. Can't hurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzywoFS_r9U

So i have managed to get into the settings of the phone, so I've managed some progress at least!!
From the start up press next
Go to add another network, click advance options, proxy manual
add a couple letters under proxy hostname, push and hold what you added and select share
Select Messages, select yes, then allow
Push the three dots on the top right corner and select "Tips & Help" Press allow
Push the three lines by "how tos" select "diagnostics tools" push "phone storage"
Select Apps, scroll down to "Setup Wizard" select it, then push the i that's in a circle " force stop" it, select "ok"
At this point you should have all three navigation buttons on the screen at the bottom, pull the notification bar down and hit the gear. You're now in the settings of the phone!
You can enable developer options but it won't let you access them, but you're able to access all of the settings in the phone, but I'm not able to get to the home screen. But it's progress, maybe we can figure out a bypass with this information....

skater95 said:
So i have managed to get into the settings of the phone, so I've managed some progress at least!!
From the start up press next
Go to add another network, click advance options, proxy manual
add a couple letters under proxy hostname, push and hold what you added and select share
Select Messages, select yes, then allow
Push the three dots on the top right corner and select "Tips & Help" Press allow
Push the three lines by "how tos" select "diagnostics tools" push "phone storage"
Select Apps, scroll down to "Setup Wizard" select it, then push the i that's in a circle " force stop" it, select "ok"
At this point you should have all three navigation buttons on the screen at the bottom, pull the notification bar down and hit the gear. You're now in the settings of the phone!
You can enable developer options but it won't let you access them, but you're able to access all of the settings in the phone, but I'm not able to get to the home screen. But it's progress, maybe we can figure out a bypass with this information....
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Accounts and sync accessible?
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dottat said:
Accounts and sync accessible?
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Yes, but it doesn't show any intonation in it. I was able to wipe the phone but it didn't clear the protection. The password the person gave to me after 72 hours finally worked, so I have a somewhat functioning M9. The signal is messed up it keeps dropping service. Verizon is sending me a new device, should be here later today.